Also, this violence in Northern Ireland is best eradicated by actually giving communities here meaningful routes out of poverty, future prospects and good quality of life. Young people are much harder to radicalise by paramilitaries when their lives are fulfilling.

Guarantee a comfortable social security net for everyone and decriminalise drug possession and a number of the major ways paramilitaries terrorise their communities evaporate.

Sure there's legitimate sectarian hatred here. But it doesn't operate in a vacuum - so much of it is fueled and enflamed by economic issues. Northern Ireland being one of the most impoverished places in the UK is *deeply* relevant to why we're always in the news for this stuff.