Banning the IRA

So I'm almost always against the European tendency to ban political parties it finds distasteful. I believe that banning political parties simply drives the sentiment underground where it festers.

The IRA and Sinn Fein has made me question my beliefs. They flatly robbed a bank. They offer to kill their own killers.

This, along with the fact that 70% of N. Ireland residents would vote for union with the U.K rather than Ireland makes this group essentially an organized crime sydndicate. They represent no democratic ideal, they have no guiding philosophy other than minority rule.

I would not ban them only because they make themselves publicly silly with each new scandal.