WI - Bloody Sunday doesn't happen?

Not a TL as such but your thoughts on the "History" of Northern Ireland if this doesn't happen.
To give a POD for this, instead of 1PARA being deployed, elements of 6 Regiment RMP take the duty instead.

So what happens on that fateful Sunday instead?
 

boredatwork

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based on the thread title, let's presume no live fire.

You have the protest, and probably some low level rioting, which is eventually broken up by riot police, or peters out on its own.

So, just another protest march, with assorted idiocy attached, but no deaths, no crisis, no kindling of the Troubles.

How folks forecast what happens next depends almost entirely on their opinion of how things were before bloody sunday...
 
I've read that the British Army of today owes a lot of the restraint and professionalism it is so admired for to this tragedy and the reforms that came because of it. If that is true then presumably we have a less capable British Army.
 
boredatwork you obliviously do not know that much about the Troubles in Northern Ireland, as I am from Northern Ireland and know for a fact that the troubles were already in full swing by bloody sunday. Loyalist Paramilitaries were already attacking and murdering innocent Catholics and this would continue regardless of bloody sunday. The IRA had already began its terrorist campaign and was not in a mood to stop soon, so would have continued on regardless and remember terrorist violence went down after 1972. The army had already began lock down of areas, internment of innocent catholics and groups like the B specials were still harassing Catholics so all this would have kept radicalising many nationalists. All Bloody Sunday really did was shown how bad things had come in Northern Ireland and turn many Catholics against the army.
 
I would also say that perhaps it means that less people are inclined to sympathise with the Paramilitaries which might mean a calmer Northern Ireland. And I agree with zeppelin247.
 
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