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An old show that's only grown on me recently - Everybody Loves Raymond. Used to hate it!

1987 is so  long ago. If it was now the SAS would call in the drones like they do in Afghanistan.
Some operator in the home counties would click on his mouse and the 8 would be dead instantly. 

Like playing some computer game   

Go on...

I think it comes down to the fact that SF have changed/lost/watered down that many of their principles they find it hard to remember where they stand on alot of matters.

[That is the risk of being a soldier is it not? What exactly are the IRA families unhappy about?]

One thing i could never understand or agree with the IRA or Sinn Fein on. If you agree this was a war and 2 armies fought it then surely you have to accept that the British army won this particular duel. If  the IRA were the ones hiding in the ditch they would have done exactly the same as the SAS did. That is the risk of being a soldier is it not? What exactly are the IRA families unhappy about?

Good question, myles. I been wondering about the same thing myself.
If this was a war and and the combatants on both sides were solders, I don't think the question of who fired first is material.

It is when it's the RUC investigating it, who, along with the British Army, always denied they were in a war with the IRA. But I agree that the families cannot pick and choose when they believe it is a war. I'm sure there are many families of IRA volunteers killed that would point blank even consider claiming compensation.

I love all the optimism but Ireland won't win a game. Sorry if I burst your bubble

Well there you have it everybody. Cancel your flights, no point in going now.

The brother-in-law of Sinn Fein's Barry McElduff wife was one of those killed.
"I'm not going to disown Patrick Kelly or any of the other people killed at Loughall," he said.
"If it was a war then the British government are wrong - they have said all along it wasn't a war.
"They were bound by the laws of democracy, law enforcement and all of that, and if that's the case then they should have attempted to arrest them."

So the hunger strikers were criminals after all then. Never thought I'd hear a shinner saying that.

Well, you haven't   

Longest pregnancy ever??

They'd maybe give a few boys a run-out for the last 5.

A fella I used to work with went to school with two brothers who were farmers and often had a bit of a smell coming off them. They simply called them 'Stink One' and 'Stink Two'.

Lads and ladies, whats the best way to contact a mod? I'm an old poster with a new username but would like to return to the original (which had been banned).

If anyone knows any of the mods if you could PM me their username please?

Thanks