Endgame In Ireland 1 - Bomb And Ballot Box 

That's because they were effectively part of the Brit military. They're always the Loyalist 'gunmen', despite the fact that they were far, far worse that the IRA in terms of specifically targeting civilians, whereas the IRA predominantly attacked legitimate Brit targets.

​@@musashidanmcgrathBoth were terrorists and the I.R.A. killed more civilians.

The loyalist were terrorists. But the UDA wasn’t a prescribed terrorist group till very late on. Even though they were responsible for most of the sectarian violence ever seen in the north of Ireland and the South of Ireland. By bombing Monaghan and Dublin

indeed.

​@@questpublishing4388Ah yes the good old murder Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher.

Better or worse than murdering kids in the street like the British army and covering it up?

What about what Michael stone did?

@@Sean-sn9ld Yeah,that too was wrong.

Uppa RA🇮🇪

@@ffspablo8739 Who rattled your cage?

No that emotion is called happiness

@@Sean-sn9ld nah ,listen to the sneer ,laced with hate

@@markyinbelfastxx9088 nooo, it's your comments that are laced with hatred

the bombing of a hotel to assassinate a prime minster is obstructing democracy. Whatever terrorism happened in Ireland throughout the centuries at Britain's hands is not the responsibility of maggie thatcher

@@jonoessex disagree knocking on Thatcher,s door was the embryo of the GFA knocking on Major,s door ? They ran to the negotiation table ,by 91ish the PIRA were in position to capipulate the English ecconomy ,strategy of warfare based on this what we,ve done ? This is what were capable off doing an interesting game play with minimal loss of civilian life not like " democracly elected governments. "

@@gerard1965able The British had been negotiating with the IRA since the early 70's but the IRA would not accept anything but a British withdrawal. In the end the British intelligence war against the IRA became so effective that the IRA had to end their campaign. That's the reason for the peace process.

@@jonoessex agreed, par shally, yes the infultration Derry/Belfast , other areas no, 2 outa the ruling coucil ? Yes identified 1 chief of staff indentified, 25% of lower rung volenteers acknowledged = warfare 75% + of areas outside of the aboved named no, the campaign in England ? The ran to negotiated, excepted by all parties. Manchester ? Was " your choice,any time,any place any were " so agreed parshaly (poligies dislexic)

@Mountain forest I don't think as far back as 1970's, I think after the hunger strikes Adams etc realised the Brits were not going to leave and decided to pursue a political path.

The Brits had 2 informers on the war council and 2 in sein fein. This, Gibraltar, the IRA had been infiltrated

@@dirtyd7743 I'm talking about how they kill their own informers and little disabled boys.

@@dirtyd7743 wasn’t steak knife or something like that was internal IRA security unit

@@maxcullen3427 Freddie Scapaticci

@@maxcullen3427 Stakeknife was the head of the PIRA nutting squad who tortured and killed informants. So he was an informant who was killing other low level informants. So the question was did he tell his handlers the names of those informants that he tortured and killed and were these informants warned or were they sacrificed by the British in order to protect Stakeknife?

Throughout her time as PM, Thatcher was the PIRA’s best recruitment officer. Allowing the hunger strikers to die was a major own goal. Young men and women joined the republican movement because of it and she opened the door for SF to become a political force in NI.

She also allowed an democratically elected MP Bobby Sands to die, a cold woman that did more harm than good in N Ireland 😢

​@@markstar6056He was in prison. It was a loophole in the law, although I am surprised it had not been changed earlier since Sinn Féin did the same in the 1918 elections.

In time Ireland will be united

Ah yes God bless her for all the suffering she caused in Britain and Ireland what a lovely lady, she's definitely not burning in hell for her sins or anything

Thatcher was well hated in Britain, look the way she treated the miners during the miners strike in 1984. Northern Ireland is not British you un- educated twat, its Irish and part of Ireland.

Tiocfaidh ár lá 🇮🇪 Thatcher is burning in hell for the evil she did!!

the only things Thatcher did right were: The Falklands, standing by Kuwait in 1990, and dying.

They had no choice, accept partition or a Civil War. Of course if they knew that by accepting only 26 was going to lead to a Civil War anyways, then maybe Collins would not have agreed. Collins & Co thought that if they could manage Ireland, then they could make a push for unification but after he was assassinated that put an end to that. And even when Churchill offered Northern Ireland during WW2, De Valera knew that the time for unification was long gone, the Unionists were never going to accept a United Ireland. They wouldn’t then and they wouldn’t now.

@@arthurgoodness7865 Unionist may have no choice but to accept if a majority want it, it’s in the Good Friday/Belfast agreement - the principle of consent

@@markstar6056 yes of course, but if a border poll is called and the Unionist/Loyalist population in NI believe that a United Ireland is on the cards, then they will withdraw their support for the GFA and their commitment to “consent”. Even if the majority in NI & Ireland vote in favour of reunification, then that will only start the process of negotiations between the two Governments and all of the political parties in Northern Ireland. Do you see Unionist parties such as the DUP and the TUV ever agreeing to reunification in these negotiations? Do you think that the two Governments will force reunification knowing that Unionists/Loyalists are so strongly opposed to it? I wouldn’t hold out too much hope on “consent” or the GFA. Unionists care little about either.