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For anyone that doesn't know, the Loyalists are the bad side that fought against the socialist and anti-imperialist IRA. Also they ended up morphing into a network of drug dealers (one of the reasons the remnant of the IRA were involved in Direct Action Against Drugs if you've ever wondered wtf the provisional IRA was so obsessed with vigilante action against drug dealers in the 90s and early 00s).

All the guns and paramilitaries are still around, lots were demobilized and a lot of good militant socialists were willing to abandon the violent struggle in the street for a parliamentary struggle in local politics. Don't know how things would go with Troubles 2.0 at this point, maybe enough resentment was subsumed into politics and culture or maybe there are enough people that actually fought and killed the other side and are willing to take the struggle in an extra-parliamentary direction again.