Re:Inside the Irish Republican Army (1994)
by lmm on Monday July 25, 2022 @03:47AM
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> To prevent widespread sectarian murdering and ethnic cleansing of both Catholic and Protestant communities, and because there Irish state is incapable of doing this.
If that were the reason then they wouldn't have been deployed in places like Armagh where there was no community division.
The army were sent in for the same reason that the border was drawn where it was: to serve British financial interests.
> No one in England wants anything to do with it anymore, is a mill stone round our neck.
The IRA succeeded in making it more expensive than it was worth (although the collapse of the shipbuilding industry was probably the biggest single factor).
If that were the reason then they wouldn't have been deployed in places like Armagh where there was no community division.
The army were sent in for the same reason that the border was drawn where it was: to serve British financial interests.
> No one in England wants anything to do with it anymore, is a mill stone round our neck.
The IRA succeeded in making it more expensive than it was worth (although the collapse of the shipbuilding industry was probably the biggest single factor).