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Eta's current nihilistic campaign probably provides an even better comparison. We may in fact have to accept that – just as Spain and the Basque country will be shaken occasionally by the odd Eta outrage – the same goes for Northern Ireland and extremist republican groups. Basque nationalism has actually enjoyed more compromises from the Spanish state in the areas of language, culture and devolved power than Irish nationalists experience presently under their own devolved settlement. But for those in Euskadi who dream of an independent UN-recognised state straddling the Pyrenees the struggle must go on. And just as the uncompromising Etarras (militants) will continue with their futile terror, so too will an eternally insolent minority on the republican fringe

Oh no, not again

Henry Rollins recently went to Northern Ireland, walked around, talked to people on both sides, did a couple of shows.

His opinion is that they don't have peace there, they have a cease-fire. Here's hoping it lasts a bit longer.

I got the same impression when I traveled through N. Ireland two yeas ago. In Derry, near Bishops Gate there's a sign hanging on a burnout building with the message Londerry West Bank Loyalists still under siege never surrender A little ways from there, near the Bog Side "Real IRA" is painted on the roof of a small house.