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He got a life sentence. He's an alcoholic who hasn't slept properly in the 15 years since he demobbed. He now lives in the ROI, married a Catholic girl from Belfast and, if it weren't for her his PTSD would have driven him to suicide years ago. He told me How the residents of East Belfast would...

Ooh that’s waspish love. What I’m saying, to be clear, is this. You are wrong. Thank you.

Are you sure about that. How do you know? Being in the IRA was prohibited by law then and now. I’m sure that building barricades across a catholic estate and protesting british military presesence makes them blameless civilians in your eyes but...and it’s a big but..there were shots fired at...

I think of that mirror shaded arsebit Bonio and his diligent tax avoidance and moral posturing. If he’d been shot by the Paras I’d be advocating medals rather than jail. In fact. If Sinn Fein offered us his head on a plate in return for some retired old boys from 1&2 Para to spend a year in...

A mate of mine, an ex Para, served in the Falklands, Ireland and other theatres, is quite open in admitting that atrocities were committed by both sides. But to judge him or anyone else by the standards of 2019 when this incident was played out in the 1970s is ridiculous. He was 17 when he...