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  I did serve in Northern Ireland in the early seventies and the one thing that has always remained with me is the pure hatred felt by the Catholics towards the Protestants and the English. I deliberately use the word English because that is who they particularly hate due to our appalling treatment of the Catholic population over the centuries and in particular the mid 1800's. Unless you have stood on a Belfast sreet facing an angy mob,who may or may not have an armed terrorist in their midst,you would not be able to comprehend what goes through the mind of those facing them.
  
  I do not defend what happened in Londonderry(Derry) that day, but to seek 'justice' at this stage would be incomprehensible to those who have. For Paul to seek 'justice' does him little credit as I think he believes that because he has a prolonged Irish brogue he is seeking it on behalf of his countrymen. Justice would be to return to prison all those released under the Good Friday agreement who had murdered innocent people,but in the name of progress and peace it was justified, just as not prosecuting those soldiers would be justifiable.

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