Any books about the Dublin and Monaghan bombing that go by the FG belief it was IRA not Loyalists

Christ on a bike, is this a serious post? The bombs went off when the people driving stopped for a sandwich and a pint. Anyone believing that nonsense is delusional.

'some people' again deployed to cover the musings of someone who throws out any nonsense in order to incriminate.

The OP seems to state some people believe it was IRA explosives, which may have been accidentally or deliberately detonated by persons unknown, for whatever reason. Did it affect the amount of bombs going northwards or eastwards though?

According to Wiki, by the summer of 1972, the British Army estimated that 90% of the bombs involving Home-Made Explosives (HMEs) used by the Provisional IRA originated from the South.

In 1981, a British Home Office report stated that 88.7% of explosives used in Northern Ireland in 1981 originated from the Republic of Ireland.

Some bombs were 1,500 kg / 1,600 kg, such as the one in Belfast in 1992, and the Manchester 1996 bombing. Even in 1998 a 450 kg bomb was discovered in a car at Dun Laoghaire ferry port bound for Britain.

Some people believe the earth is flat and the moon is made from green cheese!

B-Specials could not have been operating in Dublin in the era of the Dublin Monaghan bombs, 1974, because the B specials were disbanded in May 1970.

Maybe you meant he was a retired B-Special? Was he on a shopping trip or perhaps visiting relatives. friends or sightseeing? Was he annoyed you saw him because many retired policemen were murdered by Republicans during the troubles, and he was worried who you may tip off? People like 73 year old Justice Gibson and his wife were murdered on their way back to N.I., after holidays - someone must have tipped someone off?

RUC continued to have undercover detectives after 1970!!! Maybe re-named, but they existed. My father called them B-Specials as thats what they were called when he was growing up.

Guy was on some sort of undercover activity and was annoyed at being recognised. Had no reason to be fearful of my father. They were neighbours and my father wasnt involved in anything. Just freaked out because he had been recognised - didnt expect someone to shout "hows it going (his name)" on a busy street in Dublin.

I'd say he was horrified when your dad called out his name. I was caught up in the bombing on talbot street that according to my mam. She said she was pushing me across the road from Connolly station onto Talbot Street in my pram, I was only a few months old, when the bombs went off. She said she was going to go into Guineys on the way to my grandmothers but as soon as the bombs went off she went down Foley street instead and then up my Grandmothers that way. She said she never moved so quick and then she had the worry about my brother and sister who were out playing with their friends in town that day and with no mobile phones she had no way to contact them. Thankfully they came running into my grand mothers about 10 minutes after us to tell what had happened.

You are wrong on many levels. Approximately 40,000 people served in the ranks of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) over its lifetime from 1970 to 1992. Was there a ban on them visiting friends or family or shopping, or visiting cultural landmarks, south of the border? Many of the probably did not, for obvious reasons, but some did. Incidentally, did'nt Republican paramilitaries kill more Catholics during the troubles than the British security forces? So if you think the UDR were "thuggish reprobates", no doubt you think the pIRA were even more so.

The conclusion of myfreespirits logic is that the pIRA were much worse that state security forces. Which most people would agree with. During the troubles, SF was not even the largest nationalist party in N. Ireland, and had miniscule support south of the border.

Wrong again. It is you who is flip flopping. I have consistently condemned all those who act or acted outside the law.

Just stating the truth. I am not flip flopping in the slightest. Unlike you, I have also consistently condemned all those who act or acted outside the law. So no need for me to pivot in the slightest.

Of course the British Army/UDR were not the same as the pIRA. The former were the armed services of a democratically elected government. They wore uniforms, kept records,etc. The vast majority of the hundreds of thousands who served were law abiding people.

The truth always hurts you.

exactly

It is you who is completely wrong. At the formation of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) in April 1970, Catholics accounted for approximately 16% to 18% of the regiment's members. The percentage of the population who was Catholic in N.Ireland then was approx 31%. Not ideal, but a lot better than south of the border, where there were virtually no Protestants in the Irish army or Gardai in that era.

Do not forget Éamon de Valera quote regarding a choice between a Protestant and a Catholic for a single job in 1930. De Valera stated that if he had one job to give and two applicants, one a Protestant and one a Catholic, he would unhesitatingly give the job to the Catholic.

So not as black and white as you think.