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You sound like more of a wanker than Duffy does. Ship you off to Palace for a bag of nuts.

The IRA weren't indiscriminate. They hit exactly where they wanted "most" of the time to gain the maximum impact. Kill a solider and they just send more soldiers. Kill non-combatants and the pressure then goes onto Governments to get out of a conflict or go to the table for resolution. The...

They killed French Nazi sympathisers all the time, many who were civilians. They executed 9000 not long after France was repatriated. Never heard of the Vichy French?

Poorly thought analogy. In the case of NI, MM was more like the French Resistance. Any issues with what the FR did?

From the position of always being the one with the massive well equipped armies to fight a much smaller and under equipped group of disaffected native citizens who battled on despite the odds that were stacked against them? See how some people might look upon such an unfair fight and side with...

Very true. As is often said, for every action there is a reaction. Push someone enough and they will eventually push back.

As I already asked, what would drive people to do such a thing? Eleven-year-old Stephen McConomy was playing with friends in the Bogside when he was shot in the head by a British soldier. There was no justice for that child.

And why would/did they do that? Why did the IRA exist? A group like that won't exist without conditions that over a long period of time drive regular people to do terrible things out of desperation and frustration. The way you're painting the picture you'd think no Irish child ever died at...

Who knows Duffy's story. Maybe he has a story in his past of someone killed by the British that forms his views. The problem of course begins when one side claims they were the good guys.