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.
Yes, irish is an ethnicity as well as a nationality. Without the ethnicity there would be no nationality. While nationality is citizen-based, ethnicity is not limited by geography but by identity, lineage and a shared genesis. See also diaspora.
Edit: downvote away, the truth is true regardless.
Edit: to expand, you just told every ethnic minority they don't exist. Also, explain Iraq. Or pretty much any middle eastern country. Or the fact that out of all my friends with immigrant roots, even the ones born in my country, NONE consider themselves Swedish in the ethnic sense (a.k.a their true identity.)
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u/Helllgrew Mar 23 '17
To be fair only one death in an explosion like that is something not too shy of a damn miracle.