You can’t compare IRA tactics to IS tactics

Victoria White writes (Irish Examiner, November 19) that “terrorism is not an extremist version of Islam, any more than the IRA is an extreme version of being Irish”.

Quite true, Victoria, but did the IRA viciously cut innocent civilian’s heads off?

I am not for a moment defending the inhumane tactics of the IRA, but to construct a parallel between these two terrorist organisations is irresponsible.