That's what the wider British population don't see, Jinky. Those are the things that went unreported across the whole of the broadcast and print media.
Sure - we all heard about the 'terror' campaigns being waged upon the mainland and in the north, but the coverage and reportage was a cyclopic view of events.
In the last few years, there has been a slightly wider lens cast upon those events which occurred in Ireland, but it is still far too little and it is far far too late.
If these events were fairly and forensically covered, then I would like to hope and think that those 'heroes' would be held accountable for their actions; unfortunately - that would appear to be a forlorn hope after another fairly recent whitewash of the atrocity in '72 which seen one token parafucker be held up as a pawn for how the horror unfolded.
Perhaps if the wider British population were to see those tiny coffins and the sheer amount of coffins throughout the years, then perhaps they'd realise that their tanks and their guns are not the tools of freedom, but rather the weapons of mass destruction that they were/are.
Forgiveness may come after they truly hold themselves to account and not after some half-hearted, wishy-washy apology from the whore of windsor and her equally obnoxious prime minister of the time.
I was delighted that the GAA raised the standard of forgiveness when they allowed the British rugby teams to be privileged enough to step inside Croke Park. I was brought to tears by the pride I felt when tens of thousands of Irish men and women stood in silence while that awful anthem rang out. I was even more full of pride as Ireland dismantled their team that day. It was a symbol of Irish resistance and even though rugby may not be the most popular sport in that beautiful green island - Ireland, quite literally, beat the British and the English at their own game.
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