IRA Naivety takes the bloom off Rose

I am generally suspicious of headlines.  I always check quotations, context and tone when I'm told that someone has said something 'outrageous', so when I read on BBC News that actress Rose McGowan had announced that she would have been in the IRA if she was in Belfast in the 1980s I checked out the real sources. The quotations simply said 'My heart bleeds for the cause', which is nothing unusual. American IRA sympathy is something which makes me balk but it's been around for so long that you can hardly still get upset about it.  She was promoting her new film 50 Dead Men Walking, an account of the life of a British intelligence mole who infiltrated the IRA in the 1980s. She plays a 'femme fatale' IRA member, laughably.
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