The New Troubles - UK

Northern Ireland struggles to escape violent past

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When the Good Friday Agreement was signed 13 years ago, there were finally hopes for peace after years of violence. But a new upsurge in violence has many worried about the return of hard-core nationalism.

Northern Ireland had been relatively calm since the Good Friday Agreement gave the Irish republican movement a share of power. But a new generation of Irish Republicans are emerging, who feel they've been sold out by the IRA and Sinn Fein's involvement in the peace agreement. There's been a recent surge in sectarian attacks, especially on the streets of Belfast, where barbed wire barricades still divide the two communities. "They really don't know what to do about it because Sinn Fein can't do anything other than say 'do as we say not as we did'", says Robin Wilson, a writer. The police service is now on high alert for more killings as new recruits take up the dissident cause. "These young lads have never been through it before, they carry more guts, they'll do whatever they have to do", says Thomas Campbell a long time resident of the nationalist district, Ardoyne. For Dr Martyn Frampton, a terrorist specialist, the future looks increasingly uncertain: "dissidents seem to have the capacity and a drive to operate, to carry out acts of serious violence which I don't anticipate to diminish seriously in the immediate future."

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September 2011

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[IrishFoodHunter]

The conflict in Ireland is about Soverignity and Freedom, not about religion. Our country is occupied by another, while this occupation remains the british will have to expect some resistance.

[glasseverywhere]

Irish are tough people

[bananaempijama]

don't get why this orange march has to pass near catholic areas.they know it's a provocation.so they don't have to be so surprised when shit starts flying.

[44warjunkie]

@IrishFoodHunter I would say they are more about freedom than most of these Middle East groups out there.

[Tonyo1221]

These kids rioting need to realise that following the agreement in '97, every child born in the North has an automatic birthright to an Irish Passport, Irish citizenship and to be part of the Irish Nation. The UK couldnt just pull out as long as a majority there want Union but everything is in place for peacefull democratic all Ireland unity. These kids need jobs, an education and opportunities in life. Violence against your own community, even unionist members of it achieves nothing.

[newworldodour]

@ieyedmonster yup I agree, leave the catholics to their kiddy fiddling preists let them breed like rabbits as they do and let them eat potatoes, blockade the whole country and see how long it takes before the deluded religous nut jobs come begging for help, they fucked their economy and they'll fuck up their country even more, let them rot

[wrathofhayley]

violence= poor education, lack of mixing between the two religions, a arrogant approach to the troubles and people simply not moving forward and forgetting the past.

[blackgold161]

Im Irsih fuck yeah

[ieyedmonster]

its all the brits fault leave ireland no more roits simple as

[leelim1047]

Protestants Loyalists, (Northern Irish settlers from centuries ago) in IRELAND are a damn sight better than those phoney so called fake 'irish americans' who know nothing about reality. Bost on 'Irish-Americans' should they not also leave The USA?

[leelim1047]

All of the protestants were born there and a lot have been there even before the birth of the USA. However, we should not forget that the Irish were migrants of the UK and The EU as they moved through the continent. I believe it is the Welsh that were there first and have the oldest culture and language i Europe now. Juts live and let live.

[dathi67]

@obrieneoghan the minority being the british Gov and the loyalists