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Police criticised over Garvaghy gathering

Posted By: July 16, 2014

Connla Young. Irish News( Belfast).Tuesday,, July 15, 2014 THE PSNI has been criticised over claims officers allowed Orangemen to gather at a controversial loyalist arch in Portadown on July 12. Nationalist residents say that officers looked on as a number of men, some wearing Orange collarettes, gathered close to the arch on the lower end of […]

Police investigating after “Kill All Taigs” facepainted on five-year-old goes viral

Posted By: July 16, 2014

The incident has been described as “utterly depressing and shocking”. The Journal. ( Dublin). Tuesday, July 15, 2014 THE PSNI HAS confirmed that it is investigating a picture that shows a five-year-old girl with a sectarian slogan painted across her face. The image, which has been shared extensively online, shows the girl at a Twelfth of […]

The Guardian view on Ireland’s critical week

Posted By: July 13, 2014

A new Labour leader means Enda Kenny’s government has one more roll of the dice Editorial. The Guardian, Tuesday 8 July 2014 A European island nation, dominated by its dynamic capital city. An economy battered by the banking crisis and a burst property bubble. Government austerity now the order of the day. The country ruled by a once-popular coalition now fallen […]

Efforts to rebrand the Orange Order are doomed to failure

Posted By: July 13, 2014

Opinion: North’s Protestant middle class has already abandoned the organisation Donald Clarke. Irish Times.  Friday, July 11, 2014. Here’s a question. Is the festival of stomping, shouting and sunburn currently being endured in parts of Ulster the only such patriotic celebration that doesn’t have a name? In Sydney they enjoy Australia Day. German Unity Day has been […]

Orange Order fanatics resemble KKK more than a cultural group

Posted By: July 13, 2014

Patrick Roberts @irishcentral July 13,2014  Racism or “culture”? We have long been encouraged to accept and try to understand the Orangeculture and society as practiced by hundreds of thousands of Northern Ireland Protestants. Good faith efforts have been made to try and understand a culture that seemed to be based on “Croppie lie down” more than any other driving force. […]

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