Return to the bad old days?

[TiggerCCW UK]

I was just talking to my wife on the phone (she's at work, I'm off today, at home with the little lady) and I think she summed up peoples feelings here very well. She remarked that its only in the last year or so that we started thinking that any news reports about bombings that didn't immediately state where they were might actually be in another country. We'd become so indoctrinated to the news here being about bombings in NI that any report that started 'A bomb has exploded' or 'X people killed and injured in an explosion' was automatically assumed to be local news, even though it was normally Iraq or Afghanistan. This is changing a lot of peoples out looks. Another factor that worries me is that a lot of the security apparatus here was dismantled with almost indecent haste in the rush to make life normal again. A lot of peelers were paid off, as were a lot of the Royal Irish home service guys - the police station in my village is part time, only open for an hour in the evening Monday to Friday, and closed completely at the weekends. I hope that the powers that be aren't proven to have been to hasty in this.