From the 1890s onwards there has been a Republican drive to infiltrate the Gaelic movement and hijack it for their own political purposes, diverting it from legitimate cultural and scholarly study.

If America has an Irish heritage it is fundamentally that of Ulster-Scots (Protestant Dissenters) who, like their fellows from England and Wales, established the American colonies to be free from Episcopalian (clerical hierarchy) rule. They sought freedom from the religious intolerance of Anglican and Roman Catholic hierarchies, the liberty to worship in their own way, something that Anglican and Catholic Episcopalian persecution denied them in Europe.

Currently, a ‘balanced’ proportion of killings from Republican, Loyalist and Security Force killings are proffered for trial, i.e. a proportional representation of killings from all three based on the numbers each group killed. This immediately implies their equivalence implying the same degree of collective and individual responsibility for acts of killing.