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Where have protests got us?

Posted By: September 12, 2017

RISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus “This Editorial in the very respected Irish News of Belfast surely reflects the thinking of all reasonable people.  Orange bonfires in built up city areas are a dangerous madness.  Orange parades through Catholic areas are shameless supremacist acts of madness.The Orange Order should be opposing this madness, instead […]

Top Labor Leader Tefere Gebre to Receive World Peace Prize

Posted By: September 12, 2017

                                                        For a life dedicated to justice CAPITOL HILL. Tuesday, September 12, 2017— The recipient of the 2017 World Peace Prize, “Roving Ambassador for Peace” has been announced.The Prize will go to Tefere Gebre, Executive […]

Loyalists considered a bonfire on every corner in response to injunction

Posted By: September 11, 2017

  IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus   “Orange bonfire pyromania (‘an obsessive desire to set fire to things’). Whence this madness?  It is very dangerous, highly toxic, and most menacing. It ‘marks’ territory, deepens divisions,  and is a primitive scream of supremacy.”—Fr. Sean McManus Allison Morris. Irish News. Belfast. September 11, 2017 The grand secretary of the Orange […]

Orange Order: Parades issue is not settled

Posted By: September 11, 2017

Orange Order still threatens to parade down the Garvaghy Road. The annual Drumcree parade was again prevented from walking down the Garvaghy road on their return to Carlton Street Orange Hall in July this year.   Allison Morris.Irish News.Belfast. September 11, 2017 Mervyn Gibson, then as Orange Order chaplain, takes part in the Somme Commemoration Parade in east Belfast in July […]

Trying to convince unionists of the benefits of a United Ireland is “insulting”

Posted By: September 11, 2017

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus   “Mervyn Gibson — who some see as the  poster boy for Orange/Protestant division and supremacy— is a former Special Branch man in the old, discredited RUC.  White supremacy in the USA  or Orange supremacy in Northern Ireland are both to be equally condemned. Both preach division, disunity […]

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