The Enniskillen bombing was the one that had the biggest impact on me personally, I remember being at my nans house as those events were unfolding, the troubles were a part of our growing up, only as a news story obviously @Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy, I donāt want to upset you, but that just seemed different, we used to sing Ra songs and put IRA graffiti around the place but it changed for me after that
Man on man my fuck, my grandfather and most others who took part in the woi and the civil war used every means possible, ambush-kidnap - robbery - coercion -threats-torture-bribery and blackmail - culvert bombs and the dissappearance of many
FYI 2 young Cork men (volunteers)
Gave their lives for Ireland near Omagh, Crowley and Ahern in the 7Os,dozens of other corkies locked up,
And each training officer in Derry as it kicked off were Cork City men
I was a bit younger so oblivious then. I do remember reading about the death of two soldiers who drove into the funerals in Belfast after Stone lobbed the grenadesā¦ That was gruesome for a 9/10 year old to process
The Gerry McCabe murder by the PIRA was the one that shook me a bit, I was kind of getting old enough to start to understand the troubles a bit more, before that it was part of Irish life and seemed normal.
One thing I never understood was these bastards causing shit and murdering their āownā people for money and those SF fucks then campaigning for their early release from prison.
Similar to the free state executions of IRA prisoners, 80 plus officially, count in another 26 unofficially, besides the torture of many, and continual harassment, that was wrong, and McCabes murder was wrong, its the past