On 28 September, Dublin’s Mansion House was illuminated green for ‘International Safe Abortion Day’. Belfast City Hall was scheduled to follow. The National Women’s Council coordinated the Dublin illumination as part of a Europe-wide campaign promoting abortion as a reproductive right. In Belfast, an attempt to reverse the decision to illuminate City […]
PAT+ JUDE TALK ABOUT – WHAT ELSE? – THE OO AND THE GARVAGHY ROAD. SHOULD THE OO BE OUTLAWED?
SO – Would you be one of the one-and-done brigade who’d be OK with the Orange Order going down the Garvaghy Road and then promising never to do it again? Will Michelle O’Neill and Mary Lou be prosecuted for fomenting civil unrest? Maybe we should just ban the Orange Order – after all, it […]
The dangerous men and women of Garvaghy Road
And what they’re guilty of – by Pádraig Ó Meiscil I shouldn’t feature here. This is a guest blog and, I think, is brilliant. “The Orangeman is a sufficiently funny person; and he is funny mainly because he is so serious.” Pádraig Pearse In January 1998, a United Nations special […]
From walk to Oh Fawk
Is there extradition from the South to the North? Yes? Oh , good to know. Because when they send that jeep round to Michelle O’Neill for breaking the law by standimg in solidarity with the people of Garvaghy Road,they’ll have to send another jeep at least as far as the border into which they can […]
Been here before By Randall Stephen Hall
A poem and song combo for imaginative strategieshttps://youtu.be/c8-fGbG3yFI?is=hKIvtIESav52FgnaSurely to GodWe’ve been here before?Surely we have?Why would you march down a roadTo annoy and to threaten?With all the potential forFurther violence?Why would you do that?Grown men, not wee boys.And what is the motivationThat moves you now?Faith, Hope and Charity?Where is it?I don’t see it . . […]
Been here beforeBy Randall Stephen Hall
Been here beforeBy Randall Stephen HallA poem and song combo for imaginative strategieshttps://youtu.be/c8-fGbG3yFI?is=hKIvtIESav52FgnaSurely to GodWe’ve been here before?Surely we have?Why would you march down a roadTo annoy and to threaten?With all the potential forFurther violence?Why would you do that?Grown men, not wee boys.And what is the motivationThat moves you now?Faith, Hope and Charity?Where is it?I […]
The Orange Order, past and present
The Orange Order often describes itself as a religious organisation. That’s religious in the sense of the Christian religion. If that is correct, it must be a world leader in religious orders that foment public disorder. Here are just some of the disorder and death the Orange Order brought onto the streets during the nineteenth […]
The long walk home
Every July, the Orange Order attends a church service in Drumcree and then faces the great question of our age: how to get home. It’s a mile-long walk, and the Orangemen have had roughly thirty years to work out an alternative route. They have declined to use any of them. The logic is […]
Micheál Martin to Blame for Drumcree 2026 – by Joe McVeigh
It must be said that the Taoiseach’s policy of dilly–dallying with regard to the Border referendum has led to the standoff at Drumcree in Portadown. His pursuit of the silly Shared Ireland project has given the loyalist Orange Order time to regroup and organise this attempt to walk the Garvaghy Road against the wishes of […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT THE RIGHT TO’ ‘WALK’, THE IRELAND TEAM & BLACK ARMBANDS, & WAR CRIMINALS
The Ireland team will today play Israel. Only one team member – goalie Gavin Bazunu – has refused. He says “My decision is based purely on my personal belief that the killing of innocent people is wrong.” What does that make the rest of the team and the manager? The Orange Order,an anti-Catholic […]