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Interesting Times
Jul. 28th, 2005 02:30 pmhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4720863.stm
IRA is ending the 'Armed Struggle'. Or so they claim. Still the fact that they've actually come out and said this has to be some sort of step forward. ALtho I'd say mostly its a step towards getting Gerry Adams into running the Assembly (if it ever gets off the ground again).
Unionists (and I'd imagine just about everyone else) are taking it with a pinch of salt and Paisely is ranting as usual - he'd be much better off using his energies, influence and ranting against the paramilitaries on his own side who are merrily feuding with each other, with the usual round of tit-for-tat killings, homes petrol bombed or shot at and people forcibly evicted from estates.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4716729.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4324677.stm
Not to mention the latest spate of anti-Catholic violence in his own home town Ballymena just because of the suggestion of a Republican parade thro the town.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4716713.stm
Which of course is all playing wonderfully into SF hands, they couldn't ask for better PR to cover up the true nastiness beneath the surface. "Look we're NICE, we're not fighting like THOSE mean boys over there".
IRA is ending the 'Armed Struggle'. Or so they claim. Still the fact that they've actually come out and said this has to be some sort of step forward. ALtho I'd say mostly its a step towards getting Gerry Adams into running the Assembly (if it ever gets off the ground again).
Unionists (and I'd imagine just about everyone else) are taking it with a pinch of salt and Paisely is ranting as usual - he'd be much better off using his energies, influence and ranting against the paramilitaries on his own side who are merrily feuding with each other, with the usual round of tit-for-tat killings, homes petrol bombed or shot at and people forcibly evicted from estates.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4716729.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4324677.stm
Not to mention the latest spate of anti-Catholic violence in his own home town Ballymena just because of the suggestion of a Republican parade thro the town.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4716713.stm
Which of course is all playing wonderfully into SF hands, they couldn't ask for better PR to cover up the true nastiness beneath the surface. "Look we're NICE, we're not fighting like THOSE mean boys over there".
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