And PBS as you are a bit of an expert on Wiki-policies I know I have read somewhere that neutral words like "killing" are to be used rather than POV terms like "massacre", "slaughtered" etc. Perhaps you could direct Mr Downey to the appropriate link. One can just imagine Mr Downey's reaction if I starting inserting "murdered" to describe the execution of the 1916 leaders - or referred to the men in the GPO as being "slaughtered".  He has rather a long history of inserting POV language into this particular article and his intransigent attitude made me think: perhaps the same unintentional bias and poor choice of words infects the rest of his Irish History writing on Wiki. I am going to examine that shortly.