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better late than never. perhaps there is reason to hope.

The major British Protestant paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, the Ulster Defense Association, announced Wednesday it has fully disarmed - finally meeting the key requirement of the province's 1998 peace accord.


The international official overseeing Northern Ireland disarmament, retired Canadian Gen. John de Chastelain, said his officials recently "conducted a major act of decommissioning in which arms, ammunition, explosives and explosive devices belonging to the UDA have been destroyed."

In a statement, de Chastelain said Ulster Defense Association leaders had assured him "that these armaments constitute the totality of those under their control."

A UDA representative, Frankie Gallagher, told a Belfast press conference that the outlawed group regretted having killed more than 400 people, mostly Catholic civilians, from the 1970s to 1990s.

"But we are determined and are willing to play our full part in ensuring that tragedy of the last 40 years will never happen again," he said.
The governments of Britain and Ireland - which have spent more than a decade pressing all of Northern Ireland's underground armies to disarm - welcomed the move as a final piece of the peacemaking jigsaw.
 
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This is good news. If such a long standing dispute can end in both sides disarming perhaps there is still hope in the Middle East.
 
........yeah, the Irish!!!


yes, the irish but compare them to the muslims.

those guys are crabby all the time and hold a grudge forever.

the Irish have a few too many pints and mix it up. Go home, sober up and are fine. except when a few dont sober up and it gets ugly.
 
yes, the irish but compare them to the muslims.

those guys are crabby all the time and hold a grudge forever.

the Irish have a few too many pints and mix it up. Go home, sober up and are fine. except when a few dont sober up and it gets ugly.

or when some nation, cough cough British, tries to rule there nation and suject them as 3rd class humans in there own land...they get fiesty!
 
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