Tell me you're either not Irish or a teenager without telling be you're a not Irish or a teenager.

Very few people who lived through the IRA of the 70s to 00s would be saying "BuT tHeY wErE tHe GoOd GuYs 100 YeArS aGo" - to most people the Provisional IRA are the IRA because the original IRA is a thing of history books these days.

As for the loyalist paramilitaries, they were terrorists too. Just because they were doesn't mean the IRA weren't.