I will add that the other reason this conflict is intractable is because any solution requires one side or the other to give up what they consider their land, their homes, in Northern Ireland Catholics and Protestants were fighting over who had political control over the province, neither population expected nor wanted the other to leave (although some Protestants were scared of what their lives would look like under republican control), the conflict in N Ireland was not existential for either side, nor was it in truth particularly religious, it was mostly about economic fairness/parity for the Catholic minority more akin to the civil rights movement in the US
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