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Old 04-08-2017, 01:25 PM   #27
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Northern Ireland is sort of fixed, although Brexit could have blown that door wide open. The province is now largely peaceful. One thing McGuinness can be credited with is ending the policy of no co-operation with security services in nationalist areas. This basically means you can now report your car stolen and not get a beating. It also means that if you steal a car you are more likely to get arrested than get your knee caps shot off.

So we now have the Continuity IRA, and the "real" IRA, splinter groups that have refused to give up the fight. They seem mostly concerned with murdering Catholic police and prison officers. Most likely they're the ones that benefit least from peace, gangster types that see no benefit in a peaceful and law abiding society.

So will peace continue and eventually lead to some thing of a more stable and prosperous place to live? Since the power sharing agreement began, Northern Ireland has developed its tourist industry in an effort to replace some of the jobs lost in ship building and such like. However, Martin McGuinness left a big void when he resigned in protest at the dodgy dealings of his UDP opposite. After recent elections, the NI assembly was unable to form a new agreement.

I expect Martin and Ian are either spinning in their graves or sharing beers and trading a few punches....
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