Young voters' view of the Troubles on the island of Ireland.

Absolute nonsense and no it doesn't "gall" me. I think if a successful united ireland is what we want, it would be a good idea to move away from parties that have caused so much misery. The soft unionists might have been convinced by the economic success we have in the ROI if they hadn't been hardened by the campaign of violence. To begin moving on from that SF would need to stop attending terrorists funerals.

The difference is that those involved with the violence in other parties are long, long dead. You cannot compare 1922 to 2022 much as you would like to.

If a UI is achieved, it will be in spite of SF rather than because of them. For all the failures of FF and FG over the years, they have still created a successful modern democracy with one of the highest standards of living in the world. SF have achieved nothing. Obviously we have a housing crisis at the moment and you being more credulous than me seem to think that SF have the answers to that. It is very easy to complain about issues but much more difficult to solve them. TD's are basically salespeople, they rely on state employees to do the actual work and this is where it often falls down.

Oh FFS.

FF and FG spent most of the last 100 years ignoring the partitioned part of this island and shoring up the suprematist state, if not deliberately then by proxy.

Stop rewriting history.

Why is unfamiliarity blamed for young people voting SF "in spite" of the troubles, when the border counties - the regions where most people actively lived & experienced the troubles - have the highest % of SF voters nationwide?

Perhaps the article is just a rag, written by one of the IT's many unionist-leaning writers

Typical yuppie celtic tiger comment.

People seeing a house as an "investment" or "property" to be upgraded or used in the "property ladder" rather than seen as a home for your family.

Young people would be delighted to own 1 house in their lifetime so negative equity means fk all to them.

You aren't actually seriously comparing being a member of a terrorist organisation as military service? Now you are just trolling and it is a very bad attempt.

Conveniently you leave out that many civil rights marches were subject to vicious attacks at the hands of both loyalists and the police. The PIRA only really came to the fore after the civil rights movements stalled and people were being chased out of their homes by the state.

The idea that a purely peaceful movement would have achieved what has been achieved at this point in time is purely speculative, but also highly unlikely.

You enjoy your freedom as a result of the actions of a 'terrorist organisation' Herr. Despite your attempts to use arbitary cut off dates, that is the logic here.

MoN was asked about her family's role and said they felt they had no alternative.

And for many there was no alternative and likewise for many there was an alternative. Similar to war/conflict anywhere.

The people who the main responsibility lies, the British, had an 'alternative', there was nothing, absolutely nothing to stop them instituting the reforms and rights in the GFA in 1969 or long before for that matter.

They stood by and allowed the statelet to fester and then allowed it go up in flames and spent 30 tragic years shoring up Unionism until they finally came to the table.

We do look at it in a different way, yes. It is similar to ISIS supporters saying they are upholding Islamic values and do great things for the community etc. Just different types of extremism.

Thankfully we can live in hope the next generation isn't so blind. I give up on Herr's generation.

We tried SF/PIRA's approach and we have the current situation. We have the outcome from their approach, still division, hatred, bonfires etc. We didn't try the peaceful civil rights approach. I think it would have worked much better and we might even have had a UI by this point if it had have been tried. Also, I suspect the younger generation are not thinking about this as SF have tried to move away from it (at least publicly and explicitly). SF have tried 1) EU stealing our fish 2) we are giving away hundreds of billions in oil and gas for free 3) housing crisis.

#3 has finally struck gold, but we don't hear about #1 and #2 at all anymore, must have been rubbish at the time. If SF get in, they need to sort out #3, no excuses, no we need more than one term or anything like that. They will be judged based on that. The actions they can take will be a bit more restricted than supporters are thinking.