@Shellmccabe There's been a good few republican murders in NI too (from INLA, PIRA, new IRA) 🤔 civilians and their own.

@DaddyPobbin there has indeed, as well as in the Republic. But she's using loyalist violence as a bogeyman and even including dissie violence it's still nowhere near the amount of gangland murders

@Shellmccabe No ones terrorist or drug dealer is better than the other.

@DaddyPobbin not the point, the article was based on scaremongering about how bad one section of a community will be in order to avoid a UI. It wasn't grounded in fact. E.g. telling people to beware of someone's dog when you've a lion in your own house

@Shellmccabe Those are frightening when seen written down

@Shellmccabe The self same outlets that had 'opinion' pieces during repeal about tone, being too shrill, weren't campaigning properly, blah de blah blah. What a shocker.

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@Shellmccabe Excellent point.

@ChrisSlavin3 @dillyday the lack of convictions is astounding

@Shellmccabe @deirbhilesdaddy Well said 👍

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@david_flood @FergalLenehan sorry not sorry. Scaremongering and disinformation is just wrong, on all levels

@Cynical_Colin Oh definitely, agree with all of that. In NI they’re still considered paramilitaries or troubles related even when we all know what they are. Dissies murdered more than loyalists in north but I only listed them because the article is using them specifically as the bogeyman

@Al12776649 @Donnan_S probably

@Mimilinsky @var_dee the OT wasn't about comparable murder rates, it was someone trying to scaremonger about loyalist murders in particular to promote her own partitionist agenda against a BP. As replies in the thread confirm, dissident republicans killed more than loyalists but that wasn't her point