:::::::::::Y'know Rock, the common Anglo view is that the loss of tens of millions of lives was worth it for freedom and the defeat of fascism in Europe. Surely a few thousand lives in Ireland was a truly a tiny  price for ridding, or trying to rid this island of the same? I don't see many squeamish folk claiming the gassing of Germans or the bombing of Dresden was too high a price to pay for victory in the world wars. The comics showing "Fritz" shouting "Ach! - these Englanders!" as they are graphically mowed down - comics and films that you and you cohorts were reared on. But any equivalent from the IRA in the War of Independence would be suppressed as "glorifying violence". I bet you never even thought of that, eh Rock? The double standards. The conditioning? Guilty? Take your hypocrisy and.....