His statement is good, but his timing stinks, then again it might be that it's the time he can get his views across.
Frankly the whole melting pot in NI is sickening, it seems to me that both sides are just as bad as one another and as someone else commented on the forum it may be that it may take a new generation of leaders (qv. Palestine) before people start talking to each other again instead of sticking their fingers in their ears and going 'lalalalalala'.
In the meantime I'm not entirely convinced that the IRA et al haven't just turned into the Irish mafia while they bide their time.
Myself? The best way forward I could think of would be to cut ties to NI and make it independant and from there it can find it's own way (much like should likely happen with scotland, rather than the plodding half-assed semi-independance it has now) because from what little I know of the Republic of Ireland a lot of them are not keen at all for NI to be part of their world.
Then again I know very little of the whole shabang anyway and am a cynic.
Well, if the IRA has just turned/ does turn into the Irish Mafia, that is one thing. A criminal organisation, which needs to be combated by the government. However, this will be made considerably easier, if they are no longer able to claim freedom fighter credentials, and lose their support basis
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Date: 2005-04-14 03:30 pm (UTC)Frankly the whole melting pot in NI is sickening, it seems to me that both sides are just as bad as one another and as someone else commented on the forum it may be that it may take a new generation of leaders (qv. Palestine) before people start talking to each other again instead of sticking their fingers in their ears and going 'lalalalalala'.
In the meantime I'm not entirely convinced that the IRA et al haven't just turned into the Irish mafia while they bide their time.
Myself? The best way forward I could think of would be to cut ties to NI and make it independant and from there it can find it's own way (much like should likely happen with scotland, rather than the plodding half-assed semi-independance it has now) because from what little I know of the Republic of Ireland a lot of them are not keen at all for NI to be part of their world.
Then again I know very little of the whole shabang anyway and am a cynic.
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Date: 2005-04-14 03:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-14 11:29 pm (UTC)Why not? The have.
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Date: 2005-04-15 07:44 am (UTC)