@smokemary 986579 wrote:
It’s Garda and psni not ruc anymore
I know 😉 – bear in mind what era I grew up in, that I lived in an unusual Catholic enclave of SE England where about 30% of the population it seemed were formerly from IE or NI and that at least one of my junior schools were run by nuns (old skool ones; to be fair not as bad or fearsome as they were made out to be although one of them would whisper the names of everyone who was in h-block during the rosary intentions. that would probably result in social services closing the school nowadays).
Cops in mainland England were also equally hardcore then but so were the criminals, as were political and religious extremists of every type. And the same applied across Europe (but with more guns and bombs involved).
There was far worse shit going dowin in the 1980s even compared to today, I remember listening to French radio and there would be reports about bombs and shootings in France every other week. Friends from DE and DK have also told me about what really went on in their countries (when there wasn’t any Internet or EU so we didn’t hear about it). Middle East was as bad as today but because there was so much trouble amongst “native” Europeans no one paid the area much attention.
As the 1990s and parts of the 2000s were very prosperous and peaceful (the rave scene was part of these former good times) many folk have forgotten all this (or to be fair were not born when much of it happened).
