Maybe you thought they’d gone away? Uh-uh. The Orangemen of Portadown have applied for the right to march down the Garvaghy Road, since Sunday will be All-Ireland day and all the Armagh nationalists will be watching the game. What could go wrong? Carla Lockhart MP says it’s an example of ‘positive thinking’ by the Orangemen.
Yesterday Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Joint Houses on Capitol Hill, explaining to them what they were doing and planned to do in Gaza, and he was …Booed? Jeered at? Barracked? Not a bit. His audience clapped, cheered, rose to their feet again and again. No, that really did happen.
Is the South or the North more prosperous? Most would say the South. And yet when people discuss future Irish unity, people in the North – including nationalists – talk bleakly of losing the advantages they have in the UK. What’s all that about?
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Dee Stitt is happy to use his state funding to do other things.