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When all else fails, deflect.

You wouldn't know, Blanch. You weren't there. It is evident as always.

The charge is that 'British Soldiers were machine-gunning people to death', as if it actual policy and a regular thing.

Now, we know it wasnt a) policy or b) a regular thing

In fact the British Army were welcomed with open arms by both Nationalists AND the IRA.... but lets not mention that fact... LOL

Now, getting to the nub of what Joe was saying that people in the south were 'blaming' nationalists in the north for their predicament is both ahistorical and just plain wrong. It is just ahistorical rubbish.

😁😁 Another denier getting caught out.

It's funny I was watching the new Netflix documentary about the Miami showband the other night and the survivor talks about the man who was in charge of the operation that day that he had a ''very crisp very posh English accent'' it was claimed that this man was captain Robert Nairac a high ranking officer of 14 intelligence company and he was overseeing the operation, although files claim he was elsewhere at the time it could have been a similar officer with a similar position.

Another similar thing happened in the kingsmill massacre, when the ''IRA'' shot ten civilians, the lone survivor of that massacre also claimed the man in charge of the operation had a very crisp and posh English accent, both very similar operations fake checkpoints, paramilitaries pretending to be the British army.

We only know about the man with the English accent at kingsmill because one of the victims survived despite being shot something like 20 times.

That made me laugh, the ''kingsmill enquiry found nothing'' as with nearly every inquiry in the history of the Troubles concerning British intelligence/Army/state murder.

I find invariable, that those on this forum who seem to support the side that imposes itself on the side that was fighting to free itself, usually have no idea what your last paragraph means nor have any idea how nationalists were treated (or more correctly, what it was like to be treated in that way).

what went on was more than politics and it's effects were more intrusive that the cost of electricity or petrol going up in the budget. there are those - and this **** bugs me - who don't know the subject matter they are debating and compare it to the relatively normal political system they themselves grew up under.

Majella O Hare 12 years old South Armagh 1976 killed by a British soldier with a machine gun . There are many more. I have been reading your posts for years and can only wonder what kind of sad person you are that continually demonises Irish people that have stood up for their people and their country .

In the event of United Ireland do you reckon the CTA might end with the mainland UK? (whatever is left of it by that point)

In relation the the Dublin Monaghan bombings the Barron report noted that the Fine Gael/Labour government of the time "showed little interest in the bombings" and did not do enough to help the investigation. "When information was given to them suggesting that British intelligence were involved in the bombing, this was not followed up". It failed to put political pressure on the British government to secure better co-operation from the RUC. It was also alleged that the Fine Gael/Labour government caused or allowed the Garda investigation to end prematurely, for fear that the findings would play into the hands of republicans, the investigating team into the bombing was disbanded after just two months allegedly by political interference.

Whatever the investigation was finding the FG government of the time realised the findings would not do them any favours.

Good start to 2022, Unionism revealing it's fears and it's tendency to supremacy. I think a few partitionists have expressed the same feelings here.

We down here left them up there that’s why it’s been bedlam since the treaty