::::::ONIH etc, without meaning to be uncivil; yer full of it! The Irish State does not endorse knee-capping or "extrajudicial shooting, and plenty of bombs, and punishment beatings and kindnappings and internment-without-trial." In the same way "The West" claims (endlessly) moral superiority over China, the Muslim world, Communist States etc etc etc I thing Eire (and many other European countries) can indeed claim substantial moral superiority over other Western countries; most specifically the US and UK. Which isn't to say Eire is innocent; but in the real world all things are relative.