Northern Ireland sees 3rd night of unrest amid post-Brexit tensions

AP news ^ | 5 March 2021 | AP

[USAF1985]

Um...no. You apparently assumed I meant murders. Violence in the troubles did not only have bombs and killing. Beatings, kneecapping, burnings, etc. The thugs were into intimidation...easier to intimidate when they stay alive. I’ll take someone’s observations on the ground and who lived to tell the tales...that means not yours.

[SmokingJoe]

You apparently assumed I meant murders. Violence in the troubles did not only have bombs and killing. Beatings, kneecapping, burnings, etc. The thugs were into intimidation...easier to intimidate when they stay alive. I'll take someone's observations on the ground and who lived to tell the tales...that means not yours.

I will just quote you from your post # 11:

“He tells me that the troubles never stopped. They just don't use bombs like they used to. They still shoot each other and firebomb houses and cars”

And by the way, not only have I been to Northern Ireland, I lived and worked there for a year. Plus lived in Londonand the rest of the UK for many years.
Meanwhile just have a look at the crime statistics in London.

[Noumenon]

The Irish: 700 years of bad decisions. Why stop now?

[Winniesboy]

It tends to be forgotten that at an early stage in the talks on the Brexit withdrawal agreement, the EU offered a deal which would have avoided the otherwise unsquareable circle of Republic of Ireland/Northern Ireland/mainland UK trade. This deal would have kept the whole of the UK in the Customs Union, even when it was no longer in the European Single Market etc.

This is already in place with some other neighbouring non-EU states, such as Turkey. The UK turned this down, ostensibly because it might prejudice future trade deals with third countries. So we are where we are.

Cui bono?

[Dick Vomer]

The AP, the Dems and the illegitimate Biden regime are pro EU anti Brexit fanatics. That's what this article is all about.

yup. I read an article about the Ukraine and it referenced the Serbian-Bosnian conflict. It started with "it's always easy to find groups of young men willing to do foolish things for money in order to create conflict."

[SunkenCiv]

A new U.K.-EU trade deal has imposed customs and border checks on some goods moving between Northern Ireland and the rest of the U.K. The arrangement was designed to avoid checks between Northern Ireland and Ireland, an EU member, because an open Irish border has helped underpin the peace process built on the 1998 Good Friday accord.

[Olog-hai]

No; the violence would make unionists favor putting up the border again, not rejoin the EU in earnest.

Graphics from the BBC don’t carry much weight with me. We’ve seen far too much vote fraud not only in the USA but all around the world, particularly these years gone by.

[Celtic Conservative]

I think the British may have played a role in that, don’t you? Or do you just dislike the Irish?

CC

[dfwgator]

Another Biden Miracle....The Troubles are Back!

[Noumenon]

My family on my dad’s side hailed from County Cork. While I admire and honor my ancestry, I weep for the wooden-headednes and stubbornness that has led to so much tragedy in their history. The plain fact is that more often than not, the Irish were their own worst enemy. You don’t have to convince me that the Brits were bastards, murderous ones at that when it came to their treatment of the Irish..

[Celtic Conservative]

I hear ya. Just a bit touchy on the subject. Historically the Irish weren’t very good at getting out of their own way, so you’re not wrong. I’m just a bit touchy I guess.

CC

[Noumenon]

I understand. No problem. We didn't fare much better in the first waves of immigration, those who fled famine and British and Protestant Ascendancy oppression. All of that still rests uneasy in the old country.

The other half of my ancestry is Acadian, another group oppressed for their beliefs and driven from Canada to the Louisiana bayous to eventually become the Cajuns.