Tell me you’re either not Irish or a teenager without telling be you’re a not Irish or a teenager.
Very few people who lived through the IRA of the 70s to 00s would be saying “BuT tHeY wErE tHe GoOd GuYs 100 YeArS aGo” - to most people the Provisional IRA are the IRA because the original IRA is a thing of history books these days.
As for the loyalist paramilitaries, they were terrorists too. Just because they were doesn’t mean the IRA weren’t.
Tell me you’re either not Irish or a teenager without telling be you’re a not Irish or a teenager.
Very few people who lived through the IRA of the 70s to 00s would be saying “BuT tHeY wErE tHe GoOd GuYs 100 YeArS aGo” - to most people the Provisional IRA are the IRA because the original IRA is a thing of history books these days.
As for the loyalist paramilitaries, they were terrorists too. Just because they were doesn’t mean the IRA weren’t.