Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams asks IRA splinter groups to end violence

So it’s legitimate to force the English, Welsh, Cornish etc. taxpayers to subsidize an artificially created supremacist statelet?

Scouse Tony! You begin by agreeing with Patrick Riordan that exiles or emigrants like yourself should have no say in contemporary Ireland, and conclude by doing exactly that. If some citizens can't stand the heat they can always get out of the kitchen. They're only an impediment to progress anyway. And it both sides have learned to get on so well NI, the logic is to extend it southwards.

_C_O_S_T_ enough said.

PatrickRiordan I agree, I was born in Belfast but haven’t lived there for fifty years and as I have no intention of moving back my opinion really does not and should not count, nor do those of people not born on either side of the border (who in the words of my Cousin who still lives there) want to bang on about the history of injustice from thousands of miles away because a Black and Tan kicked his great grand ma’s donkey and then call it heritage. Decisions belong to those who will have to live with them. Jerry Adams knows that while the stickies continue think they can shoot and bomb their way to a united Ireland it isn't going to happen any time soon.

This is a Stateman! Jerry O'Keefe Irish Born raised in California

Gerry Adams TD and President of Sinn Fein, continues to make reunification of Ireland first, of his priorities. Adams has worked tirelessly his entire life for national unity.

The trouble with Patrick Riordan is he fails to state that I was born in Ireland and lived and worked their. Not all Irish are quitters like Patrick Riordan. I was born in the so called Free State and never accepted a British label for the republic of Ireland. I know your type plastic paddy.

The trouble with most posters Including Sean in Melbourne, is that they do not live in the Irish Republic, but abroad or in Norn Ireland and think they know what we want and how we would vote. I can't see any of them living in Ireland during a civil war except to make trouble. We are peaceful now and want to stay that way. Both sides in the North will have to learn to get on with each other before we can entertain them. The "Free State" ceased to exist in 1949 when it became the Irish Republic.

The trouble with most posters Including Sean in Melbourne, is that they do not live in the Irish Republic, but abroad or in Norn Ireland and think they know what we want and how we would vote. I can't see any of them living in Ireland during a civil war except to make trouble. We are peaceful now and want to stay that way. Both sides in the North will have to learn to get on with each other before we can entertain them. The "Free State" ceased to exist in 1949 when it became the Irish Republic.

Padraig Ó Ríordán! The 50th Anniversary Ipsos/Marketing Research Bureau of Ireland (MRBI) Attitudes Survey, 2012 reported 64% (of a sample population of 1,000 citizens at 100 locations across 26 country area) believing in a united Ireland. More impressive still, 69% expressed a willingness to put their púnts (poonts) where their pius political platitudes are by paying extra taxes for such. Fascism flourishes when democrats do nothing.

What a surprise. Here is a perfect example of life span development comparisons. While Adams, is mature now and doing relatively ok for himself I wonder if he actually can think about the situations that some of the people he is talking about are going through. This is just more media diatribe designed to bolster the no tolerance prison lobby mentality while it fails to recognize any of the problems. Recently we saw the extent of the problems on the other side with poor jobless dissidents rioting about their Flag not flying. Do you think IRA dissidents are in any better of a position. I even heard stories a few years back that these days IRA bomb builders have decided they are better off selling drugs and the real problems in the Republic of Ireland is that. Now its catching up in these times of economic uncertainty and the RIRA and PIRA now look to impoverished boys from the country side as young as 14 years old to join their ranks, the ones who cant even imagine getting out of Ireland and finding jobs elsewhere. Now with all their Gangster experience that they are building up they have started to turn into Warlords.

Will they end up like Adams in the future? Well this all depends. Will they by pass the violence to get there. Not likely if they are being provoked by this kind of statement. Just imagine how it feels if you have a chip on your shoulder about an invader in your country if your being told to calm down and the problem will eventually solve itself. Easy to do if your a mature adult if its backed by substance. Clearly there is some substance behind that however its not going to be enough for a narrow minded war lord and foot soldiers whom would be offended by the whole idea of surrendering. What you should be doing Adams is stepping aside and making room for people with new ideas on economic development and people whom are going to address the underlying problems of the Militancy with programs for healthy living, education etc. I dont like your Chances in a Catholic Church Landlocked Republic of Ireland. Stingy narrow minded thiefs like them should get out of my country I say and take this Adams with you.

IrelandNorth - " As well as an Irish border poll preceding a plebicites on Scottish independence, how about English & Welsh ones on Britain's independence from NI? Do they who pay the piper not call the tune?" Excellent point - they are largely ignored - it shows that britain is in substance an oligarchy which really does not account for their opinion even though they have had to subsidize the supremacist statelet.

Patrick Riordan@`s Belfast House of Curry :)

Adams always wanted a UI, maybe he erred by acccepting the terms of the GFA. His call for a border referendum is correct and only the browbeaten and those who lack vision would vote against a referendum for a united Ireland.