No, it's Great Britain AND Northern Ireland. Both being part of the UK. If you're going to be pedantic, be correct.
Free movement between Ireland and the UK predates the EU and continues to this day. One part of the Brexit discussions was continuing border free travel between north and south on the island of Ireland.
I agree, nobody is coming to save you and you have to do it for yourselves. Bombing protestors, however distasteful, will make it so there is nothing worth saving.
Don't get me wrong. Terrorism can work. And today's terrorist is tomorrow's freedom fighter. I don't thinknthe USA is at that level of oppression for mqny people to be sympathetic to a terrorist movement, which is a requirement for it to work.
IED is being mean?