Tough Being an American in Ireland on 9/11 anniversary

Staying out of NI, Ulster is a personal preferance by myself & the rest of the world. Your empty threats don't bother me in the least. You will find that SI is a beautiful & warm place, unlike the gray empty place the north has become. If you haven't figured it out, you are not welcome in the north much more so than I. Don't worry about NY, we handle our problems more agressively than you. They hit us, we kill thousands of them. While you leave bombs in school yards.

maloney: I am sorry too the UVF and comrades have more than enough power with which to defend our country. I can't, however, promise you that Al-qaeda or other Islamists won't attack NYC again soon. Maybe then you will learn your lesson: "live by the sword--die by the sword". And, please, for your sake, stay out of Ulster--you are not welcome here.

ulster... shame on us we are so sorry, we promise to not do it anymore. At least until, say, day after yesterday.

The money, the guns, the explosives were shipped and paid for by Americans. The NYPD and many in the FBI and State department did nothing to stop it--and may well have supported it, themselves. The USA has been a "Safe Haven for Terrorists", as your president likes to say.

Were the IRA/ UDA/ Brittish spooks Irish American?

It appears Ulster absolves the bombers from all responsibility and instead blames the USA for the bombs and resultant deaths caused by NI terrorists. Im of the firm view that the mmoney that was made available to NI terrorists didnt make them all of a sudden just decide to blow innocents up, the desire was there all along. Lets not forget that these tin rattling Americans were misguided fools; it was not official gvernment policy to support NI terroists. If you want to blame a country who through offcial lines supported the IRA look at Lybia or Palestine, which syphoned plenty of its UN aid to the IRA. Ulster sounds like those other blame America first idiots like Ward Churchill and the like. The people who died in those towers died due to a regressive pre-enlightenment set of ideals that is being propagated around the world by a sick bunch of islamo fascists. I dont think the Jihadis had tin rattling donations to the IRA in mind when they took their one way flight.

ultster smulster

to maloney: I am discussing terrorism in Ireland. Last time I checked this website was Irish Central--not New York Central. Maybe you don't know where you belong, but I bet it's in the sewers of NYC given your racist, ignorant comments.

snivling orange punks, this wasn't about you. you sound just like the muslims & illegals. just another bunch where you don't belong. If you want to be mad at someone blame the brits.

Dear Manhatten: You state: "you have a nerve to compare the trouble in N.I. to what we suffer and still suffer from terroism"; New York has had two terrorist attacks in 1993 and 2001--try living in Belfast, where hundreds of IRA bombings have happened. I remember that, in one day in 1972, twenty-one IRA bombs exploded in the city center of Belfast. Moreover, it is a matter of undisputed FACT that the IRA terrorist war was largely paid for with donations from Irish-Americans (particularly from New York and Boston. Educate yourself.

It was even tougher being in Ireland ON 11 Sept 2001. I, a firefighter, was traveling on holiday. Was in Dublin during the attacks. I could not get back home to New York fast enough. It was a terribly helpless feeling.

This terrible tragedy is still causing dissension between people does anybody learn from these terrible things that happen.

I will bet not one of the Irish Americans that died that day sent money to the IRA. And if any did, you have a nerve to compare the trouble in N.I. to what we suffer and still suffer from terroism. I will never condone the bombings there. The north has been fighting each other for 300 yrs. Misguided people thought they were helping catholics finally get justice in that narrow minded culture, but as always fanatics ruled the day. My money didn't pay for bombs, watch who you are accusing

Looks like Ulster clearly missed the point of the article -compassion and understanding in times of great need. Blaming a journalist who clearly does not appear to support terrorism/hatred of any description for buying arms just because she is, in fact, an "American" is just the sort of stupidity you'd expect from a disturbed and angry northerner.

As Americans remember the terrorism of 9/11, they should also consider how the terrorism of IRA bombs killed innocent people--both Protestant and Roman Catholic. How much of the money to buy the bombs was given by Irish-Americans over the past forty years? Think of the 1998 bombing in the town of Omagh, Co. Tyrone. Your money paid for it. What goes around comes around, as they say.