Very good article by Eamonn McCann in the guardian recently on the nordies. The armed struggle is as legitimate now as it was in McGuinness day. I donât think they have ever understood though that the orange crowd would still be their neighbours afterwards.
Not sure why anyone would want to unite with the ROI at the mo in any case.
BananaRAma were another group with militant Republican sympathies, best exemplified by their song âCruel Summerâ, written about the events in Bombay Street in 1969.
The lads bombed a few shops in Derry today. Hard to know would this operation be up there with shooting lads collecting a pizza or blowing up a GAA playerâs car. Probably rank somewhere in the middle. Looking forward to reading about it in Saoire next week.