'Armed struggle is over' - INLA

An Irish republican paramilitary group responsible for dozens of murders during Northern Ireland's Troubles has renounced violence

BBC NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | 'Armed struggle is over' - INLA

 

About time if you ask me.

 

The armed struggle IS over, and has been for some time. The gun has taken Ireland as far as it can and it must use politics to take the next step.

 

What I meant was that these murders are not going to take Ireland any closer to a united country and are in fact doing more harm than good.

 

Were that paricular group not really mainly drug dealers etc like the loyalists?

As for the continuity/real IRA, they seem to be people living in the past with no sense of reality of what they can achieve. Politically motivated killing with no prospect of achieving anything is just evil.

 

only way forward 99% percent of the people want peace

 

yeah I always hated the way paramilitaries claim to speak as the legitimate voice of the Irish people and all that bollicks. These continuity/real IRA guys must be lucky to have 1% of the Irish people on their side. The only voice they represent is the one inside their heads. The only time all the Irish people were asked to vote since the early 20th century was in the 1990s over the good friday agreement and the vast majority backed that, really overwhelming in the case of Irish catholics. How people can then still go on ignoring that vote and thinking that their violence is representing anyone other than a marginal bitter tiny minority is beyond me.