‘800-year men’ need to take a history lesson

THE extraordinary outburst by Fr Alex Reid has perhaps served to expose just how distorted and exaggerated is the sense of grievance felt by some nationalists.

For the ‘800-year men’ among us, there can never have been any greater injustice in human history than that inflicted on us by the perfidious Brits.

Never mind centuries of religious and territorial warfare in Europe. Never mind the often brutal colonisation of entire continents, destruction of native populations, slavery, etc.