I AM sure this country is at the end of its tether with the IRA and the way the government deals with internal affairs. This goes for all the parties that have tried to deal with the matter.

We entered the Gulf War to save our overseas investments. We use force and shoot to kill. We are the first to send the SAS to fight foreign terrorism.

It won't be long before we have our own uprising against our own government to sort these barbaric people out.

The reason I am so enraged about this is that on April 18 my father was rushed to a Preston hospital for a life-or-death operation. My sister was in London and had to travel North urgently to be at his bedside.

She could not travel by rail, car, or air due to IRA bombs and threats in various locations, grinding the country to a halt.

Do we carry on letting the country be run by sympathisers and so called do-gooders?

We must fight for capital punishment to be brought back and get out of the EU at any cost.

T TEMPERLEY (Mr), Manor Road, Blackburn.

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