"The reality is that from the mid-1970s the conflict was primarily about the IRA’s attempt to violently impose a 32 county socialist Republic on the island. The sectarian state had been dismantled by then."

@Shellmccabe @Mickcliff 1990s....

@paulmurphy68 @Mickcliff is that the non-sectarian state actors waving their batons?

@Shellmccabe @Mickcliff The first catholic Lord Mayor of Belfast …1997

@ReggieOPerrin @Mickcliff you mean 1977 obvs