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N-Ireland somehow found a way out of the quigmire. Not by bombing Ireland or the UK, but by negotiation, even if that means that one need to talk to (former) terrorists..
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I agreed with most of what you said, but in fairness, I really don't think we'd have gone to the table had they not lobbed the odd bomb in our direction.
I remember every Christmas we'd get a tad worried on the mainland. The IRA usually phoned through warnings to give a chance for evacuation, but occassionally things went wrong. Several times, when I was working in a shopping centre we were evacuated due to bomb threats (false). It was damnably inconvenient and hurt the Christmas trade quite badly.