‘Target mainland’: planned Troubles board game condemned in Northern Ireland

By turning conflict into entertainment US games company is ignoring its living legacy, says victims rights' group

It pits the IRA against the British army and the Royal Ulster Constabulary, it lets players plant bombs and make political deals and it promises to wrap up the conflict within six hours.

Welcome to the Troubles - the provisional board game version. The brainchild of a US games company, The Troubles: Shadow War in Northern Ireland 1964-1998, is played with dice, tokens and a deck of 260 cards.