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Ichkeria, it's one part of a toxic mix, as you know. Many Unionists/Protestants benefited for many years from the sectarianism of the N Ireland state. Nationalists/Catholics, feeling themselves discriminated against, looked to the south as an answer to their problems.
I don't think there's any easy answer to our problems. Political solutions may be hammered out but that won't change the hearts and minds of lots of our people.