The IRA were actually murdering people in Northern Ireland, not just "shooting up the landscape", and as already pointed out "we" behaved worse, in addition we

The IRA were actually murdering people in Northern Ireland, not just "shooting up the landscape", and as already pointed out "we" behaved worse, in addition we had a level of privacy invasion at NI borders and within NI borders the rest of the UK and Ireland have, even now, no experience of. You don't get a full pat down when you visit Marks & Spencer, you don't walk to school with a soldier looking at you down the barrel of a rifle.