MI5 secretly spied on Irish construction workers in Britain in 1970s

I can echo what brendan gillen has said.Having lived in England for most of my life, I can report that the majority of English people are open, tolerant and welcoming. Most of the anti- English bias on this site seems to come from Irish-Americans who have probably never visited the UK and are unlikely to ever do so. That's their loss!

Of course they did - would be silly not to - the profile of an IRA bomber was 99.9% chance they were Irish (was a couple of others not Irish) and 99% chance they were Catholic (although not all Catholics supported the IRA, indeed many were Unionists)

And I should hope so,probably saved lives too

The English are incredibly tolerant - you ever been there, Curtis you little bigot?

It was a joke curtis about Iraq... chill out. Irony??

Yes, you bombed Iraq which had absolutely no connection to the trade center attacks. In fact, the Iraqui government was vehemently opposed to the types of Saudi radicals that carried out the attack and frequenty executed them.

Yes, you bombed Iraq which had absolutely no relation to the trade center attacks. In fact, Hussein was vehemently opposed to Islamic radicals and had them executed frequently.

Saudi Arabia? No we bombed Iraq instead.. Not all bombings in England were given advanced warnings "Warrington" etc

"If it was the US instead of Britain back it the day Ireland would have been bombed off the map!! I wlived in England during those times & was ashamed at the targetting of innocent people. Plenty of Irish pubs blasting our rebel songs & holding fundraisers for the IRA." What a joke - you mean like Saudi Arabia was bombed off the map after Saudi hijackers orchestrated the trade center bombings? If the IRA targetted innocent people, why the warnings? Seems they could have done massive damage to innocents if they chose to. In contrast, the british terror state apparatus deliberately targetted non-combatants in the occupied 6 (and all over the world for that matter).

"The English are the most tolerant people on the face of the earth" Comedy gold!!

At least MI5 didn`t have any of their main intel centres based in the North of Ireland till SF got into power.

If it was the US instead of Britain back it the day Ireland would have been bombed off the map!! I wlived in England during those times & was ashamed at the targetting of innocent people. Plenty of Irish pubs blasting our rebel songs & holding fundraisers for the IRA.

Who should they have vetted the Welsh??

MI5 needn't have worried. The Irish construction overlords had their own sure-fire way of vetting their fellow-Irishmen before hiring them!

Forty years ago is a life time. I too worked in England and God Bless England for being there when I needed a job. I got well paid and the butcher shop I worked for were going to make me a rep. Meaning I would go around from store to store to make sure the meat was being cut correctly. Let's stop living in the past and get on with our lives.