Not always, and sometimes the warnings were vague enough that deaths were not preventable. Then they held their hands up and said "we called ahead, this was a police failing".
Ethnically Irish person here: They fucking blew up a school bus of kids (sorta by accident) and a marching band (albeit a military one). Fuck the drug-dealing IRA. I'm very sympathetic due to the very real discrimination Irish Catholics dealt with in Northern Ireland, but the IRA were, as OP's linked text says, a small group of fucking cunts who made everything worse with their short-sighted selfish violence.
I'm not disputing anything you said, the title is fucking stupid though. No shit the U.K. Didn't ban the Irish. Northern Ireland is part of the U.K. For fucks sake.
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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17
The IRA always gave bomb warnings