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I'm sure there are still a lot of people that don't want it to be though.
indeed...
Quick quiz
1) Who said 'We don't need to talk, we're winning'?
2) Who recently prayed with the family of a murdered Catholic and has said about Loyalist terrorists that they 'will burn in hell'?
Answers
1) St John Hume in the 70s when people were being murdered daily
2) That evil cunt Ian Paisley
A far more pressing issue in NI is the massively institutional nature of the crime situation.
I don't know too much about the complex situation in NI but I've always thought it a bit sad that the govt couldn’t have done more to engage with the SDLP and Ulster Unionists; which are certainly both preferable to the DUP and Sinn Fein. I don’t know how feasible that would have been though.
Ian Paisley isn't the ideal diplomat but I'm a bit puzzled that you've singled him out and ignored the likes of Gerry Adams...
Despicable as Sinn Fein might be, they are now part of the assembly and Paisley is not exactly helping anyone by his 'NO!' attitude and his refusal to even speak to them, let alone share power.
'NO!' is just about the only word the man can say nowadays. He's as useful as a motorcycle ashtray, and more poisonous than a snake pit.
What do you mean "be back" they'll never go, they just won't use violence.
Why? Because they have dwindling support, well over half of the voters vote for DUP and SDLP and they need to focus on Sinn Fein or else the IRA will go back on a murder spree and no one wants that to happen. Now that the IRA have disbanded, it seems the two minor parties are almost surplus to requirments.
Gerry Adams isn't a complete religious nut and anti-Protestant like Paisley is a religious nut and anti-Catholic.
I meant the extremist wings.
They'll return, once they realise that they'll be ignored through democratic means.
If they don't see any real progress - which it is unlike the will - we'll see them back and armed.
I still don't get you? There are already three Republican extremist groups that are not part of the peace process; CIRA, RIRA and INLA. These groups are non-affilaited with the PIRA. The Provos are finished, whether the armed Republican movement itself is intact remains to be seen but the IRA as we know it is finished. It may evolve to another level just like it has from the 1100's but the "ra" as we know it is gone, it only acts as a political voice for Sinn Fein. It's hard to explain to English people but lets just say the information you hear about Northern Ireland is akin to the information you hear about Iraq, have to live here to understand.