I was in the Provos … via Skin Flicks
... and all I got was this lousy power-sharing executive.Well, I wasn't, but a lot of people I'm aware of, have met, have socialised with, were part of the militant Republican movement.The war was declared over some years back. Now the British overlords have confirmed that the transition to mainstream political activity is complete.I suppose there wasn't much time left for Martin McGuinness (see pic, far right) to be holding IRA council meetings since his day job as Deputy First Minister to Ian Paisley and Mr Iris Robinson (who himself was a terrorist in his day, as the people of Clontibret can testify, see pic below) takes up so many hours.But today's final nail in the Provo coffin must be hard to bear for some of the ground level volunteers - the people who took a guerilla war to what...