What Was It Like Serving In Northern Ireland During The Troubles? | Forces TV 

Sounds porkie RUC WERE FAR too busy for tripe you speak Peter houstan..

It might be a year too late to say to you. You my friend have a conscience and knows what's right and wrong. God child so to speak. God bless you

@@joprocter4573 RUC never to busy to bash a Taig. Busied themselves nicely in Armagh around this time.

That's exactly how it all went wrong. The BA was seen as supporting the sectarianism, and they did. Remember the Catholics initially welcomed the BA bringing the cups of tea, they innocently thought the BA would protect them from the RUC, UDA and Loyalist sectarian attacks. How wrong they were.

Gonna take your advice

Should have listened now im raging.

Quite frankly I think that applies to any video about The Troubles.

I hear that. But I will anyway.

@@wysardje2545 wear a helmet.

And work for it.

It really hasn't went away. The ira are still trying to bomb the police. They are still shooting people. They are mainly all drug sellers now. Only difference is most people are getting on with their own life's and trying to put it behind us. But there is still is a big Protestant ,Catholic divide . There's still a lot of hate and that's not going away anytime soon. Am fed up with people saying we at peace. And next day on the news ira tried to bomb a police station or bomb found in the street. Now with soldier F it's going to start a lot of problems.

@@monkeydank7842 its never gone away.... GFA was a farce

PCI Xpress Ltd. Not away, but sleeping.

@@monkeydank7842 sleeping wow so the ira shooting at young girl dead is sleeping or the failed bombs all around the country in the last few months.

Everyone has a camera now so RUC/BA violence directed at civilians would instantly be available via social media.

@Evan Scollan Most squaddies were poor, ignorant and scared. Army command and the RUC played on that. It always amazes me looking back what people can get used to and rationalise. But even with that there was huge kick back against the police by many of us. It seemed liked they reveled in torturing the nationalist community with raids and harassment. We hated it because we were forced to protect them. Hope those days never return.

@ That flippant remark demeans the real victims of the troubles.

@@ardakolimsky7107 stop acting righteous. England has been run by middle east bankers since 1694. Every war, invasion and colonisation has been to benefit the owners of that Central Bank. Anyone who tries to free the English from being slaves to a Middle East Bank, the English declare war on! "This system of inflation was put into operation by the Bank of England in 1694. This bank was chartered by a company or an association of persons who loaned the English government £1,200,000 and who received in exchange for it a perpetual annuity, a right to a series of payments forever from the state. In other words it created a perpetual debt upon which the people of England must forever pay interest." Who funded Oliver Cromwells New Model Army.... then you know why you were in the North.

@ 😂😂😂😂😂

Tom Thumb you can HOPE all you want ...

They could do way going home now like

Blame the Norman French

@Tom Sharpe yo if the British is soooo powerful then how did it buckle to a paramilitary force and was destroyed in 2 wars with Iceland?

@Tom Sharpe yeh with a Scottish navy, led by a Norman aristocracy with German Monarch. Very English to be proud of genocide lol

Your man is just upset because he got shot. If he was hiding in the bushes and killed an enemy it would be heroic but because he was the victim he's just thick.

Shanks Battle of Lenadoon. Know your history

The IRA sometimes outgunned the British Army thanks to Noraid, no one ever talks the yanks to task about that.

@@ShanksNLMB what about all the direct assaults on police headquarters?

@@ShanksNLMB ur wrong bud, sorry

Shame this wasn't the case in ireland because it belongs to the irish and not the british

@@glensargent647 can NI not have a vote to get out of the UK? I'm genuinely asking because I don't know

@@rhysshaughnessy4757 it will at some point.

@@paulduffy4585 have they had one before?

@@glensargent647 No it doesn't

Matthew Boyle ?

Both sides? The terrorists on both sides did disgusting things in the name of Ireland or Ulster. The Security Forces just did their best for peace and the rule of law while being stuck in the middle.

@@gutworm686 you should read up on the collusion of british army and northern Ireland police forces with loyalist paramilitaries during the troubles that'll maybe help understand some of the motives behind the nationalist paramilitaries. Tbh I dont understand why the universal word "terrorists" are the bad ones yet the army's of the world create just as much if not a far greater death tolls on civilians throughout history and still to this day throughout the world. Can you blame a civilian force from rising up against governments who use their army to terrorise civilians they are meant to be protecting. I'm not ranting by they way I'm just trying to share a none partisan view of the world and someone who realises the only deferential between an "army" and "terrorist" is the latters actions in the mainstream are merely frowned upon.

some sides much more than other sides though

Mícheál Mac an tSionnaigh aye but this was in Northern Ireland? Irish republican terrorists basically tried to overthrow the government in NI even though they voted to stay in the UK

wrong on so meny levels we had ncos who had served in aden kenya even malaya to teach us the problem was they wanted us to be policemen not the counter terrorist troops we where

Aden, Malaysia, paras in Cyprus 1967!

Graham.. totally agree. I was 16 - just prior to 17th. Birthday. Ballykinler being a ‘home’ posting - what we hoped would be a pleasant 2 year posting with lots of fishing in the back bay.. was naturally anything but.. 1969 (Queens Regiment). On street patrol in Andersontown.. glass filled sandwiches included, most sadly Gunner Curtis was murdered.. first British Soldier KIA as you would know. All we serving this ‘police action’ under the age of 18 were withdrawn from the streets due to the protests from 🇬🇧 mainland finding the age of Soldiers serving. Returned 4 x 6 more monthly ‘tours’ hatred never ceased.. Just saying- all other postings- Gibraltar, Kenya, Cyprus and Belize completed a really great 9 year career (10 really as service did not count ‘till 18) loved our muckers 🍻 ✌️

@@Threetwocharlie You really would wonder why the hatred never ceased. Did the penny never drop on that one .

This is so simplistic. While the army did have a part to play in escalations, 80% of all killings were committed by Republican paramilitaries. Most killed were Catholic.

107 loyalists were interned.

Operation Demetrius started 9 August 1971 , The policy of internment lasted until December 1975 and during that time 1,981 people were interned , 1,874 were nationalist, while 107 were loyalist. The FIRST LOYALIST INTERNEE'S were detained in February 1973

Just to clear that up Matty Boy 😉

@@user-bk2yi5jx2o they only detained them loyalists after Brian Faulkner resigned so they wouldn't be brought back the European courts for human rights infingments.

You fool 107 loyalists were interment

Oh well 🇬🇧

No need to keep whinging about it 🇬🇧

Rubbish. Tony Blair was the best recruiting agent the IRA ever had. Due to the bungled GFA the threat from dissident republicans is worse than ever.

@@Puppy-ew4be It is obvious that you have never spent the decades of the 'troubles' living in Belfast as I have. If you had you might have had a different perspective.

@@Lorenzo-qz6ce I remember Tony Benn saying he'd lost count of the number of ex terrorists who had sat down to tea with the queen, and were now leaders of their countries. George Washington would be a terrorist to the British in the 1770's...

Joshua Howie let it be known also that only catholic nationalists were interned

@@sayagain2926 took over a year for the first loyalist internment.

Joshua Howie. Have you ever served?

I appreciate the sentiment, and whilst in hindsight it is somewhat regrettable - I think the removal of the context of the troubles paints the issue with a single brush stroke whereas the whole issue of internment in particular is much more nuanced. I believe that there was a certain desperation and a feeling of hopelessness and loss of control amongst the Northern Irish politicians at the time, thus this internment move was brought in, the thinking was to get as many IRA suspects off the streets and remove their apparent ability to do harm. As we know, it didn't turn out as pretty, but I think it's one of those things that will continue to divide people for generations and that there will never be a completely non-biased opinion on the issue. - hope this helps

Yip, I've been told in Aldershot that I should support the soldiers in the conflict, like why would I support a side which was not clean? No side came out clean. British soldiers were dirty too.

L C and so did the british. Both sides committed crimes during the what seems like a full century of rebellion and revolution.

@L C You've obviously never heard of collusion and the loyalist death squads

BemusedBarfly well again, both sides used unethical tactics over the years against each other. You both brought up good points.

@L C you see one of the major issues with your "perceived threat" excuse is the reliability of the people who actually branded these innocent victims to be a threat in the first place - British soldiers and other british security personnel. Nobody is contesting the barbaric acts committed by the paramilitaries, both republican and loyalist, perpetrated against innocent people in Northern Ireland, England and in Ireland. But to use a blanket defence of 'perceived threat' for all killings committed by British soldiers is at best questionable. To defend the indefensible would put you on a par with supporters of the republican and loyalist paramilitaties. Both of these groups murdered many innocent men, women and children and thankfully many of those responsible were convicted and sent to jail for their crimes - something that many British soldiers have been protected from for decade's. Would you view a priest on his knees tending to an injured man as a perceived threat? What if this priest was the victim of an accidental discharge of a firearm at his feet by a british soldier just days earlier - an incident that the priest had vowed to report to his MP but did not get a chance to before he was shot dead by a british soldier? What was the biggest threat to the soldier - a perceived threat to his life or to his military career? How about a 27 year old man with the learning capacity of an 8 year old running through a field home? How about a 17 year old lad walking towards his home with his cousin? What about a 44 year old woman whose only crime appears to be that she was standing across the road from an army barracks? All of these were unarmed, so how could soldiers get it so wrong in viewing these innocents as an imminent threat to their lives? Would you consider it a crime if a Captain ordered a soldier to plant ammunition on the body of an unarmed dead civilian as was testified by that former british soldier in a recent Inquest into the death of 11 innocent civilians? If this Captain wanted to plant ammunition, would that suggest to you that he was concerned about the army's responsibility in the shooting of 11 innocent civilians over a 3 day period? If all of these shootings were in line with the 'yellow card' then why would it be deemed necessary to plant ammunition on a dead body? Nobody is contesting that every single killing by a british soldier in Northern Ireland was a crime. Nobody is contesting thst all british security personnel killings of innocent men, women and children were crimes. But there are some of those 187 killings that are contentious and questionable.

@L C Dresden was an act of terror designed to demoralize the civilian population. Had nothing to do with infrastructure. The carpet bombing was planned in waves that were hours apart. To maximize casualties. When the people believed it was over and came out onto the streets, the next wave came. A war crime by any definition.

Yep. No mention of the misconduct of the RUC and B Specials. If northern Ireland's justice system was corrected from the very start there would have been no need for soldiers to be deployed.

@@mrrooter3630 spot on about ruc and especially the b specials

@@petew5289 Thank you. It's a well known fact that is often overlooked in cases like this.

@@mrrooter3630 saw it first hand

@@petew5289 I'm sorry to hear that. I wasn't about when all this was going on but I've heard awful story's from my parents and grandparents on the terrozing that these 2 groups used to do and what's worse again get away with.

Thank you pira 🇮🇪

@@vamii2171 Go get a sausage supper.

@@vamii2171 Is that code for Sieg Heil Jeremy Corbyn?

Tiocfaidh ar la

jaybird - unfortunately your day will never come.

@Shane Gallagher Gracious words Shane. And I sincerely hope one day everyone gets along in Northern Ireland, great cities and towns, and above all, great people from both sides of the divide. PS: You may get a bit of abuse now but you know the score, part and parcel of of standing by your convictions. All the best.

@Shane Gallagher very mature and respectful of you.

The Troubles are far from over and it would be naive of you to think they were.

@@Puppy-ew4be relatively speaking though things are quite calm. There's been what: 1 paramilitary linked death in the past 2 years and barely 100 since the Good Friday agreement 24 years ago. In that same period in the previous 24 years (1997-1973) there was 2500 deaths.

@@matthew1882 ha thew matthew

as a British person from NORTHERN IRELAND, you are stupid

@@vipiccb6896 you're empire collapsed and your are irrelevant.

@@alexhatfield4448 you prove why Americans are considered uneducated! Your country is about to become irrelevant 😂😂😂

Thank you and your on the side of right and justice

I’m English and I support the Irish cause Ireland is Ireland Britain is Britain we should be friends and allies but the islands should be separate countries

A sad loss - RIP.

I feel for the Irishmen who were forced to fight and kill to defend our country

@Brak I'm sure not all British soldiers murdered innocent civilians, many did, in derry, ballymurphy, the curfew, with many more state attrocties and crimes on top of that, we could get into that but it won't do any good.

@@JeremiahStillWillChill and the children who lost their mother and fathers to time served or being killed during the troubles, the 3 000 + killed and the tens of thousands injured on top of it.

yeah...except the ones that helped fuel the loyalist paramilataries. giving them info etc. leading to innocents being killed. but yeah..totally just doing a job mhm. im not even irish and loyalists sound like bootlickers and make me sick

@@paulmcgrath6118 I have family members who were shot dead by those people, One died during the falls curfew, death by misadventure they said. But I do remember one young lad who gave us sweets and let me look at his SA80 and through its scope, I was only a child, I didn't know why these guys were here and why my mates were throwing stones and glass bottles at them when they came through our street on patrol. However I'm well aware of the conflict and the history behind it to know for a fact that not all British soldiers were terrible people, the same way not all PIRA/OIRA/INLA men and women were terrible.

@maroonmafia67 ulster is in Ireland

if the roles were reversed the English people would of had to of voted in favour of joining Ireland. Majority wanted to stay in the UK

@maroonmafia67 seriously? Ulster is a province of Ireland and has been since deep antiquity. Six of its counties are currently in a twilight zone where, under international law, the inhabitants can choose their nationality.

@@darrenarmstrong208 No it's in the UK, Ireland belongs to the EU now, poor sods.

@@ProfileP246 and Ulster is a province of Ireland.

Well would you be okay living in the same house as your cousin if they were bombing women and children

@@ProfileP246 hypocrisy mate. Prods killed more civilians than the ra.

I think just because generally the public know it as a thing of the past only. I'm not military so obviously it's not the same but if I went to northern Ireland now I wouldn't be thinking about the IRA being even the slightest threat. I know that's not necessarily accurate especially with these recent incidents suspected to be a new IRA movement but I imagine the public don't expect there to still be problems.

@@l3gionmusic814 Yeah probably. I suspect most outside of the Country probably don't give us a second thought really. Those of that live here know very well though that there is still an undercurrent of hate and bigotry. Catholic communities here actively hate on anything remotely British. Happy enough to use the NHS and the Queen's shilling but are openly hostile to Britishness. Messed up Country lol

Unfortunately the majority in England really do not understand this period in history. Outside NI Scotland is the only place it;s remembered, understood and respected.

@@l3gionmusic814 There is no new IRA movement. It's the same community, same people under a different command. If Republican politicians wanted to stamp it out and alert the police to these people they could, but they would rather turn a blind eye.

@@matthewmclintock3514 Quite a difficult point to make really... Maybe the fact that the IRA didn't actively bomb Scotland means that there is slightly more sympathy shown. Being from England, admittedly, a lot of people disregard the period and only characterise it by IRA bombings - after all it was the only real glimpse of the Troubles they ever got to see. I can assure you I look back and respect the period, even after having a close family member being killed in Birmingham on that night. Although she'll never see justice, I have forgiven. Sadly some people cannot leave the past behind and groups on both sides still operate today.

UN Peacekeepers are only to be dispatched in Countries that has Unstable Governments or in a middle of a Full blown civil war.

Or brought over police from the mainland until something else could be sorted out..but I agree, troops should never have been sent..

Or if there is ethnic cleansing of a race of people

The reason soldiers react like this is because of the tactics the IRA used. They never actually engaged in pitched battles against the British army and when they did in Loughgall in ended in a total disaster. Soldiers called them cowards because their tactics rarely involved fighting against soldiers who shot back, mainly landmines, time bombs and ambushes on off duty soldiers accounted for 80% of casualties caused by the IRA

@@ravenmusic6392 'They never actually engaged in pitched battles' - No, it's called guerrilla war. You don't fight a superior and better armed force in a pitched battle.

@@anothertime1282 It wasn't even a guerilla war most of the time. That ended after operation motorman. The tactics effectively changed to terrorism in the 80s, with the cell structure, bombings and occasional sniper attacks on soldiers and civilians. Their campaign was pretty similar to that of ISIL in Lebanon and Hezbollah in the 80s, and can't really be compared to insurgencies like the VC or Taliban

@@ravenmusic6392 I take your point. But in the sense that guerrilla war means 'small war', not a war of position by mass forces, I don't think it's the wrong term for what was going on. It's a dirty business and I'm glad it's over, but I still think an ambush is an ambush, who ever conducts it.

​@@ravenmusic6392maybe you wouldn't be so condescending if you grew up in nationalist areas

Chris' #1 Fan glad to know your willing to watch this with an open mind. Although I will point out that the initial deployment of British troops was to keep the peace for both sides, and had nothing to do with religion. And wile the mission changed to combating the Ira which did carry out terrorist attacks in England killing civilians, most British soldiers would have helped catholic citizens in need. Also the IDF in the south assisted the British miltary in the north a lot.

Probably the best and most neutral discription of the "troubles" I've ever heard. Thank god people like you exist!

We need more people like you in this world. Although I disagree with you I respect you 100%. All the best mate

Chris' #1 Fan - good on you! You come across as a good, decent down-to-earth person that anyone should be proud to have a pint with! Cheers from New Zealand!

That is the apparent rewriting of history Unionists are warning about. Its fair to say Security forces made mistakes but on the other hand Security Forces never murdered anybody in their own home, burned hotel guests alive, kidnap someone murder them and bury them in secret denying the family the right to a funeral or forced anyone to blow themselves up while holding their family at gunpoint. Terrorists did. Northern Ireland might have had its problems but I do not believe a violent campaign of murder and intimidation was needed to bring about change, and neither did the Terrorists as thats not what they were interested in at the time. They were interested in forcing Northern Ireland out of the United Kingdom against the democratic wishes of the majority, they only now claim those interests after failing in that goal.

Conventional armies always hate it when insurgents melt back into the populace so a common insult is 'cowards'.OTOH if the IRA had tried to engage in open battle British Army soldiers would have called them idiots. 'We had armored vehicles helicopters heavy weapons and they attacked us how stupid can you get.' Ultimately its frustration at being unable to root the IRA out. Its also to an extent a method of deligitimising the other side of not recognising its role.

Joe Fitzgerald it’s 32. Joe you’re a silly billy hehe

He means one country

@@cathalmcwilliams3033 hey I thought his maths was fairly spot 😂 no just pulling ur leg man 😀😂

@@LiamHickey2967 No problem. 😂😂😂

And every terrorist was a legitimate target also my friend. 🖕

they are not foreign, northern ireland is part of UK

Were the many children murdered in IRA bomb attacks also legitimate targets then?

@Godjrah your stinking government shouldn't be in our country There the real terrorist and history has shown this

LMAO 🇬🇧

Laughing at the last sentence. Just when you think you've read everything possible for them lot to cry about, all of sudden, our troops fired too many rounds... Haha

the truth is that most Irish don't have an issue with the British. it may look like that on the RU-vid comment section but of course this is over the internet. Ireland and Britain will continue being buddies for a long time. however, it will be difficult if the brits start speaking Arabic!

BurgerKingFootLettuce well, we made you switch to our language once😂

Northern Ireland *

Read the history .

Yeah it kind of sucks. There was lots of bad stuff on both sides so really it was just one of those crazy conflicts that I wish never happened. Good thing it’s in the past now.

@@BuddySpike101 And hope it stays there. At the end of the day only the people can decide with a vote.

Mark Mc long live the queen

Well it is the news service of Crown Forces...

@@itswednesdaymydudes8631 as a brit just shut up. There's always two sides to a story, and you should always be able to hear both

Nothing to do with the fact with gave those heathens a damn good pasting NS

Super Muzz88. Er try outside the grand central railway station, there's a housing estate which was blasted with graffiti about the ira, it was a new housing estate and all the walls had been demolished to be used as weapons.

TimStamper warrenpoint 18-0

SuperMuzz88 Northern Ireland is still British though. The Union flag is still flying in all six counties,everyday. We spend pounds sterling with the Queens head on it. Dry your eyes, it’s great being British 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 No Surrender!

@@edcarson3113 you may keep the six counties and fly the fleeting flag of a former Empire ro your heart content. The North is an economic drain as it stands for the Uk and would be detrimental to the Republic. Its filled with Conservative clinging to history plebs on both National and Union sides who would rather throw petrol bombs and bricks at one another than come to terms with the evil both sides done to one another.

If ambushes are cowardly then hannibal must be the biggest coward in history

Mr Hughes who really were the cowards? If you stayed at home. You wouldn't have got shot.

How have they thrown them under the bus specifically?

@@alastairward2774many end up homeless bums.

@@mac6899 no offence, but doesn't that happen to a lot of ex-servicemen? What's so special about NI?

Happens all over the country bud, the guy who done the Iranian siege is nearly or is homeless

@@alastairward2774 in Northern Ireland uniformed British troops fired on unarmed civilians including children on many occasions.

My great grandad who is still alive was on the Russian side of Poland when they were invaded he was sent to a labour camp in Siberia when he was about 14 he then was sent to Egypt and Italy to serve with the British when the Germans invaded Russia

My Grandfather Joined the IRB so your Grandfather wouldn't have had to Join a Foreign Army to Fight foreign Wars.

@@tommyjackowksi5774 a hug for him from here! Xx

@Graham Clarke cannon fodder for the ruling class

@@irishrepublicofglasgow3273 now that. you got rid of the British our new masters are just as corrupt as our previous. Corrupt judges. Corrupt politicians, corrupt police. Corrupt civil service,

I hear you.

Belfast viking . what a joke. your not a viking less im then im irish

Your a glenman Martin ?

Good story mate....

@Your Dad they claim irish decent because they are, you know they arent in america much longer than a century or 2, exiled by the british, which is why the british dont seem to like it when they know where they came from and why

you upset because it doesn't bend to your IRA republican BS?

FORCES NEWS, might just give it away.

Wait, you're telling me a RU-vid channel about the British military is going to give the perspective of the people in the British military?!? I'm shocked.

Not everything is about you whining IRA lovers.

@@Lorenzo-qz6ce 😘🍑

Went quite what? Maybe you need to back to school

V sorry for your loss . I’m sure he was a great man trying to make a difference

@Alex 28 You're right, definitely not the first idk why I wrote that... Either a late night mate or a drinking one. He was killed though as described though. "11 November: British soldier Owen McQuade was shot dead by the IRA while sitting in a stationary British Army minibus in the main driveway of Altnagelvin Hospital, Derry."

Oh yeah, but every single bomb that went off was an act of bravery.

@@cowboy4378 how many times did the RAF phone in warnings when they flew over Germany?

@@JW-YT you think i agree with bombing civilians? No i dont. This isnt an excuse but the luftwaffe done the exact same thing even to my home town in northern ireland so i think britain would be stupid not to do the same.

@@JW-YT lets not forget the belfast blitz of 1941 . When over 1000 belfast citizen were killed 10 S of thousand injured . And more made homeless by the Luftwaffe. .

@@missingwords6723 Whats your point caller? My own town was levelled by the German.

Exactly

I totally agree mo chara ✌️

Alex Tell, the only cowards are the ones who planted bombs and killed children, known as the "I Ran Away"

@@lorcandoyle7708 you are yet another tragic rteoublcan

@@lucymcshane8464 you agree with idiots, that is established

burants foreign troops?

LOL "Foreign troops"

@Billy Reid Lol. That's funny.

The British government really could have nipped this all in the bud

Jabber 1974 yeah to the republicans.....the brits were an occupying force

sarcasm i hope ...

hmmm , this is the most pro-british video i have ever seen

The English Scottish and Welsh don’t care about one another, why not preach that

We should of never been there.

It’s a disgrace what is happening to solider f.

@@dotnetdevni Yes justice is terrible when it tracks you down.

John David he was fitting for his country

I am not.

Should never have been in Ireland.. simple!

Nuts

What about the British army? They're not a paramilitary

@@rhondacupples1943 It was fighting a paramilitary force.

@@Horizon344 ik...

@@Horizon344 That's what happens when you shoot 13 civilians during a nationalist-unionist divided country.

Same. We do it ourselves

If that was the case, surely Nations with an Air Force that drop bombs at the biggest cowards, seeing as the other side never has a chance to fire back?

That's an interesting view. Many segments of the Irish/American community openly funded Republican terrorists. Colonel Gaddafi supplied arms to the I.R.A to kill British and northern Irish security forces. Some hail the I.R.A as heroes yet when terrorists atrocities were committed on US soil many years ago the people who were responsible are either deemed freedom fighters fighting a just cause as they and their followers see it or there terrorists. If you know of the history of the 'troubles' you'll be aware that the IRA brought their bombing campaign to the streets of Britain during the 70's and 80's Indiscriminately taking the lives of many innocent people such is the nature of terrorism.

The British /English people don't give much thought to Ireland,it's their elites and they're attempt to defend partition and the proto Klan Billy Boys.The guy who ran over the woman in Charlottesville and gunned down the black people at prayer in the church'. White Irish Scot (Shame on us) presbyterians.Same guys just a different location..

@Patrick Carson my FATHER died many years ago.... I'm a RIMAN CATHOLIC AMERICAN. IM NOT IRISH. I DON'T HAVE A DOG IN THAT FIGHT. I DEFEND THE COUNTRY THAT I WAS BORN IN.... THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I HAVE 3 GRANDSONS..... I LOOK TO THE FUTURE, NOT THE PAST.... YOU SHOULD TOO! GOD, MARY AND PATRICK BE WITH YOU..... I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING THAT PROVOS SAY TO EACH OTHER.....

@Warlightor why they lose then

@Warlightor except america lost in Vietnam 😂 and the brits were in foreign land lol

The US soldiers had for more freedom to kill their enemies.

And each other 👍

I’m sorry to hear about your grandfather. The coward who killed him deserves death. I’m British and hope for peace now 🇬🇧🇮🇪

the SAS TORTURED MANY PEOPLE IN NORTHERN IRELAND.... THE PEOPLE THAT THEY TORTURED TO DEATH WERE BRITISH CITIZENS..... IT MAKES ME VALUE THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, AS THE GREATEST DOCUMENT EVER PRODUCED, BY THE GREATEST MEN(OTHER THAN THE HOLY SAINTS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH) THAT EVER LIVED. IN ORDER TO GET THE FREEDOM THAT THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION ENSHRINES, WE HAD TO FIGHT AND WIN A WAR AGAINST king george iii, AND THE BRITISH ARMY. WE SUCCEEDED. FREEDOM ISN'T FREE.

Ross Patterson btw..... ENGLISH WOMEN ARE VERY SEXY, BEAUTIFUL, MATERNAL WOMEN! I HAVE BEEN MARRIED TO ONE FOR A LONG TIME. SHE IS AN ENGLISH CATHOLIC..... ENGLISH CATHOLICS ARE THE MOST PERSECUTED PEOPLE IN HUMAN HISTORY.... JUST ASK ST THOMAS MORE!

@@jim7115 At least the SAS knew about lowercase.

jim7115 I’ve never heard as much nonsense in all my life. The holy saints of the Roman Catholic Church writ the American constitution 😂🤣😂🤣 you’ll find the Protestant English puritans wrote the constitution & now the Roman Catholic Jesuit order is trying to destroy it, thanks to Biden. Good luck with that one.

God bless us that had to put up with yous!

@@eileenhavern77 hmmm “put up with yous! “. ok you should understand this . youin might be better at usins at math but usins are better than youins at grammer !

@Mick S lol so I have fat fingers . 😂😂😂😂

What planet are you from 🤣🤔🤣🤔

Gail this is uncontested - Hutchings shot an intellectually challenge Human Being (John Pat Cunningham) dead in Tyrone. Shot him in the back as he ran away from Hutchings and his patrol. He was unarmed. You stupid people don't recognize the real heroes of the Troubles: the bomb disposal officers of the early '71 - '76 years of the Troubles. Brave men who bravely walked into the unknown (some into the great unknown) with courage and 'sange froid'. Hutchings, by contrast, was a callous, casual killer. You people are mindless and ignorant Cannon Fodder used - for their own purposes - by a certain under pressure , ex-officer' type now living out their lives in well provisioned retirement in the Home Counties. These people fear Justice and you are their mindless pawns. associate yourself with the bald uncontested facts of the case.

In a world like this no one can get along by the looks of it

Kids were only spitting because the British Army were hiding behind them

What country? Even the UK doesn't refer to it as a country it's just part of the UK. It doesn't even have a flag. That shows you how much the UK thinks (or doesn't) of it and the people there.

@@dg-hughes most people in the UK refer to Northern Ireland as it's own country like scotland while among the public it gets recognised as a country it's not technically one

David Hughes the UK does, the home officer referred to it “the four country’s of the United Kingdom” there’s nothing that makes it not a country, governed the same was as wales and Scotland

@@caleb4790 if you want to call a failed apartheid statelet, with sectarianism as its very core, a country - then yes, it's definitely a country.

@@paulduffy4585 you know what you said isn’t true as of today though

What makes you think the conflict is behind us?

@@Puppy-ew4be ok the worst is seemingly behind us, but I get your point we are humans after all!

@@Puppy-ew4be ...EVERYONES GETTING THEIR...AHMMMM COMMUNITY GRANTS ..SSSSSSSSHH 👍☮️😉

@@KaptainKlunk1 Talk about things you'd like to do 🤣

@ Their is a giant leap from owning money to being a country of slaves. If they tried putting them in chains, wipping them, and forcing them to work for them, I doubt they would get very far. But you are right about shady bank dealings, I just know that they are not that powerful to turn England into slaves currently.

@@davidodonovan1699 you're just another tragic republican!

@@vipiccb6896 The Lord is my Shepard.

Moral Position!! More Irish were killed by their own government and army AFTER THE BRITISH LEFT. Explain that to RU-vidrs.

@@willfoster2635 The British required us to fight them or they would.

Wow 🇬🇧

Yes but the right to bear arms does not mean blowing to pieces, a mother and her unborn baby in Omagh? Don’t get all patriotic about this conflict mate….it was nasty and dirty from ALL corners…..I saw the aftermath of an IED long before Iraq or Afghanistan…. Bear arms? Plant Semtex then disappear you mean….

@jon tyler I can remember that happening. Very sorry for your loss and thank you for your service.

89-91 1 R Hampshires

@@MC14may thank you for your service

Rideshare Helper yes brave enough to kill 13 unarmed protesters.

@@mastermonke1177 Just remember which side disappeared civilians and forced them to become suicide bombers, and also supported the 3rd Reich.