Ronald Reagan’s Tipperary roots helped broker Anglo Irish Agreement

Your a card IrelandNorth no one could call you a skeptic.LOL

How does this story square with the one some time ago about the Reagan administration sanctioning sale of embergo-ed firearms to a discredited sectarian policeforce (RUC) in NI. Just about everybody seems to have contributed to the Irish peace process. According to the NI First Minister, even the Queen, (by apparently conferring Lt Col Derek Wilford with an MBE for his peacekeeping(?) in Derry on Bloody Sunday. Don't get me wrong. I'm all for carefully scripted political melodramas to will a reality into being. I'm just waiting to hear how Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great stopped of in Ulan Bator and Alexandria to discuss the Irish peace process between Dermot McMurrough, King of Leinster and the Foreigners and King Heny II of the Angles as sponsored by Pope Adrian IV of Rome. Must be the longest soap opera in history.

The Hillsborough Agreement of 1985 which gave the government in Dublin a say in the affairs of the Six-County state would soon collapse because of Unionist opposition. Sinn Féin which by then was gaining strngth on both sides of the illogical Border was not a party to this agreement. The U.S. Presedent who deserves the most credit for the peace process in the North of Ireland is Bill Clinton, not Ronald Reagan. I heard Clinton say on T.V. that he'd like very much "to see peace in my ancestral homelan". One report had it that this President thought about studying the Irish language - hardly a word of which is heard in the Dáil during the current administration.

The only academy award Reagan won was 8years at the oval office.

It's not Reagan they despise but the Republican Party that deifies him while conveniently forgeting how he didn't follow some of the party's current ideals.

wtf Not one response so far, most of the Irish hated Regan and still do so when they see his name in a headline that’s positive that is as far as they read. If they got enlightened about people like Regan and Bush they would have to question their loyalty to people like the Kennedys and Clintons.