If most Protestants were not informers that would probably be because they had no information to pass on However I think Sarah unwittingly and superbly illustrates the reason why using the word informer in this article is utterly inappropriate and far from neutral She says common usage in Ireland so describes then and now local inhabitants who give information to the British But Ireland then and now also includes the Protestant north whose Protestant inhabitants see themselves as British and would no more think of not informing than would an American who spotted an Al Quaeda operative setting up an ambush in Chicago And they would not be pleased to have the epithet informer thrown at them Irish Protestants in the south then or the north now would never use the word informer in this context and their view should not be disregarded in Wikipedia Sarah may assume they do not exist or are irrelevant but their continued existence is the reason she is editing this article in the first place Neutrality requires another phrasing