Do you know anything about the Troubles and post-Troubles era? In any event, there has just been so much press coverage of this very topic (and in recent years of a largely conciliatory tone) that your original post is not any kind of gotcha to Bushby, but rather just the usual social-media peanut gallery.
If the mother took the child to a place that he couldn’t go, then yes.
Couldn’t go to Northern Ireland but could go walk around the world. Yeah, right.
There’s nothing that would make me not see my son short of imprisonment. If he wanted to be around his kid he would be.
Not even a paramilitary that will shoot you on sight because you're a member of the British Military?
You realize there was a legal prohibition on even arriving at the airport or stepping off the ferry?