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@JWestland
Problem I have is that it doesn't go back more than 2016. There was a huge bomb discovered under an A road bridge several years ago. Some attacks/killings are also because of either very old grievances or because the alphabet organisations involved are now drug dealing scumbags. In some areas people also STILL don't respect the police and sort things out themselves.
This is really a problem still in some parts of Belfast and especially in Derry/Londonderry. There is a documentary about this, which I've not seen as it is no doubt pretty depressing.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/17/a-mother-brings-her-son-to-be-shot-review-corruption-and-violence-in-free-derry
So to correlate all of it with Brexit may not be correct.
It is however totally correct that there is still violence and division in NI, that Brexit does not in any way help the political process, that it raise the issue of unification again which then makes everybody dig in their heels on either side, that the police is seriously concerned about additional security risks because some agreements won't longer apply etc. etc.
TL:DR NI don't need this shit.