It's trendy these days to be anti colonialism, but as soon as you mention ireland all the support fizzles out. Fucks up with that? Most young people hate tories, hate british empire, etc etc, but then you say IRA and everyone gets scared. It's not even like my generation has an emotional attachment to it either - it's before our time
You'd find a lot of people would agree with socialism and a united Ireland. IRA name is aasociated with a complicated history with violence. Good place to comment there is that occupation is violence and people have a right to defend themselves.