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The CAIN table is interesting.  It indicates that the provos war was sectarian judging by the figures

Shows a lack of class in my opinion.

Yer woman's CV says it all

Sorry gerry, I am sick typing the same thing over and over again. 

I wonder how some of our posters would react if an enraged parent ran out and fired paint all over the Minister of Education in N.Ireland at one of her many visits to open yet another Irish Medium school and claim it was because of the mess she is making of the education system in OWC.  After all, her decisions are taken arbitrarily without reference to cabinet government and based purely on her own agenda. Much the same as Ms Harney or Sammy Wilson or Alex Attwood.

Lots of outrage and tears is my guess.  The minister in the north deserves to be drowned in a vat of paint for what she has done

As long as it's 13% and under £7, any white at all.

Same with me only red

Done that earlier today but malware saying nothing there and computer is clean which is a load of s.hit

If Malware not finding it try Spyware Doctor, it is good for those fake security viruses. Cost $30

Worst piece of advice I have seen on here yet.  There are many pieces of software which cost nothing that will do the job, just try doing a search on here or Google!

Why don't you tell the guy the name of the 'many piece of software' then? He's already stated the googling it did not help him. Sorry for my worst advice ever, but all I can tell you is it is worked for me on a similar problem last year and $30 seemed like good value for it.

You were stupid enough to pay for software when free stuff would have done the job and you want others to do the same?  The information is already on this forum, if gerry is too lazy to look, it's not my concern.

Thanks

We could build a big wall around tyrone and make it fairly high. that would put a lot of quarry men, lorry men, builders etc back in work and off the brew.  Great wall of Ireland for the tourists and tell them the leprechauns built it

Would this wall have any way out for Tyronies?  If not, I fully support this idea 

while the British government won't even accept that it has anything to apologise for and claims it was just the unfortunate peacemaker in a conflict between troublesome Irish hooligans.

Although it did apologise for Bloody Sunday.

Didn't Blair offer an apology as well?

Dunno who I would like to see win, looking forward to a good game

It only took them 8 years to acknowledge that they owed an apology   

Loyalists included an apology in their ceasefire announcement!  That's what the provos should have done!

They weren t one bit sorry about the civilian victims.

I agree, they didn't care what trauma they put families through, some even had to witness their loved ones being murdered

Zap, you and I will never see eye to eye on this.  I have too many personal anecdotes and also been told too many stories by people I trust to ever think the way you do about the shinners

'The Provos used the sectarian strife of 1969 as a platform from which to relaunch their ancient struggle. Little to do with conditions in the north at the time.'

In the Pantheon of steaming bullshit that constitutes your laughable contributions to this board, that is up their with the worst ... congratulations

So the provos were so concerned with the plight of northern Catholics that they proceeded to kill more of them than any other armed group? That makes sense.

I would strongly suspect that the British security forces, directly or indirectly, hold that little record. Unfortunately I doubt if they will own up to involvement in too many of them.

More republican mythology.

No it's not, unfortunately he's probably right, collusion was rife on both sides.  The Brits were in it up to their ears

Zap you are forgetting the biggest thing that came into play and why the IRA were run down deliberately.

Touts.

So called military operations were sabotaged/exposed, key operators were taken out, both figuratively and literally.  Hughes mentioned the murder of Joe Fenton, it was important because it indicated that there were higher placed informants.  I wonder who gave the order to kill him and why they gave it before Hughes got to interrogate him.  I also wonder if Donaldson or the driver were the informants or if there were others higher up

Everything was done to ensure that SF would become dominant over the IRA.  I remember speaking to a shinner way back about the idea of a ceasefire, I was a very naive 20 year old who believed in the struggle for peace.  This shinner laughed in my face at the idea of it.  This was at a time, looking back, when there were very definite moves for peace on behalf of the shinners.  Overtures were being made from graveyards and columns in AP/RN etc  At around the same time, many people in republican communities were of the opinion that it looked like the IRA were talking to the Brits.  One of Cahill's daughters, whom I knew quite well at the time through her partner, asked him if there were talks going on.  He told her that there definitely were no talks going on as he would know if there were.  As it turned out, either he was lying to his daughter or he was being lied to.

Don't get me wrong, I am glad they decided to stop killing, that created the space for the loyalists to do the same and now we have an imperfect peace.  The hypocrisy of it these days really galls me though.

See he was on Dara Cinneide's programme tonight....looking like yer man who sang "Come on Eileen!!"... cool b**tard...agus Gaeilge den scoth aige fosta....

Is he your type?