Some time between whatever point in the late 60s that you think the Troubles started, and the announcement of the Good Friday Agreement in '97, what would have happened if some Catholic children in Belfast started getting, Fatima-style, what they believed to be messages from the Virgin Mary? And furthermore that these visions proved to be popular with Catholics around the world, many of whom then desired to make pilgrimages to Belfast?
I suppose the most plausible scenario would be that the kids' priest, assuming he has any sense of communal self-preservation at all, threatens to beat them senseless if they breathe a word of it to anyone. But perhaps I just lack imagination...
I suppose the most plausible scenario would be that the kids' priest, assuming he has any sense of communal self-preservation at all, threatens to beat them senseless if they breathe a word of it to anyone. But perhaps I just lack imagination...