Terror threats escalated - Same old story, different faces

One of the advantages those who so recently, though not that recently, disavowed 30 years of violence to pursue a role in participatory democracy enjoy is that younger voters may not remember how a terrorist campaign can undermine and divide a society. 

They may, unless they are particularly perceptive, see just one side of the toxic story.

Equally, those who, in 2016, imagine that there can be any legitimacy for a campaign of violence and terror to achieve political ends cannot understand — or care — how delicately poised the normalisation of relationships on this island remains.