At risk of kicking off the usual arguments, and without being an apologist for anything (I’m disgusted and saddened by the events of the last few days):
I wonder how long the politicians can talk around this one?
Hopefully for as long as necessary. Talking is after all the solution. It’s the only thing that has worked so far.
Any so called republican is disgraced by this.
The majority of republicans (and what do you mean ‘so called’?) will be disgusted. Why should they be disgraced?
If the IRA had any honour they would be dealing with scum like this instead of knocking off banks and flogging counterfeit goods.
You know that this (probably) wasn’t the IRA right? It was (probably) the Real IRA, who are entirely separate?
One of the problems with the NI situation is that the rest of the UK has very, very little knowledge of the background and history that led to the Troubles. Unfortunately it’s not as black and white as The Sun would like to make out.