Kevin Myers is, to say the least, one of Ireland's most controversial columnists. This from today's column:
"Intern them. The lot, the heathen mujahadeen of Real and Continuity. Intern the the apparatus of the Irish Taliban before they do any more murder, and before they can wreck the creaking non-government that is the Northern Executive.
Intern them, before they bring the name of Ireland into still greater disrepute. Put them in the prison cells of the Curragh, and subject terrorist internees to a military regime, until they submit to the rule of the State.
We're coming up to the 40th anniversary of the real start of the Troubles, when the guns first came out in a serious and organised fashion. Nearly 4,000 people died in the decades that followed, and billions in wealth were squandered. Nobody standing on the threshold of those decades, back in March 1969, would have believed the murderous lunacy that was to come. It was an insult to the traditions of west European civilisation that such savagery not merely could surface, but was allowed to continue so virulently, and so long. "
Continues here:
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/k evin-myers/intern-these-terrorists-until-they- submit-to-the-rule-of-the-state-1666677.html
Whilst I generally disagree with internment, I'm sickened that this crowd can continue to terrorise. I'd expand the list to include all terrorists, loyalist and republican, who still hold arms.