Bobby Saulters should come into the real world and realise that this is not
1969, it is 1999. The days of the Orange Order imposing its will on the
people of Belfast are over.
Lower Ormeau Sinn Féin Councillor Seán Hayes on the Orange march to Ormeau
Park on 12 July
This was roughly the route followed by King William in 1690 on his way to
the Boyne. Now they are proposing to double back in a northeasterly
direction. So much for tradition. The whole thing is an absurdity and is
too silly for words.
Lower Ormeau SDLP spokesperson on the Orange Order's decision to re-route
their main parade in Belfast to the Ormeau Park from the field at Edenderry
It was an amusing display of culture and was a way of displaying what their
grievance is. It's a better way of showing their opposition to the decision
than the display of violence which we saw last year.
Lower Ormeau Residents' spokesperson Gerard Rice after Orange protestors
walked the Ormeau in their bare feet, dipped in Orange paint, after the
Parades Commission refused them permission to march down the nationalist
road
The Orange Order, in the view of people on the Garvaghy Road, is a
sectarian, racist, primarily anti-Catholic organisation... Even at
proximity talks involving the Portadown Orangemen and Garvaghy Road
residents the Orangemen had refused to share the same toilet. A separate
one had to be provided for them at an extra cost of £8,000. The last time I
heard of anything like that was in Alabama.
Local Catholic priest on the Garvaghy Road conveys the views of residents
under siege in last Thursday's Irish Times
Root and branch reform... The historic anti-Catholic/nationalist ethos of
current policing in the North of Ireland must be totally eradicated. A new
police force must be strictly impartial, truly representative of the whole
community and fully accountable to all its citizens.
Report from members of the U.S. Congress calling for the reform of the RUC
Our faith is under attack from Romanism.
Rev Johnston at the Ormeau Park Orange rally
Surreal... On each occasion it has been very clear to me the police
officers who've stopped me know exactly who I am and exactly why I am here.
British Labour MP Jeremy Corbyrn, describing Portadown on 12 July
What she has become - no doubt unintentionally - is an apologist for an
institution that embodies the worst obscurantism and obduracy of the
unionist cause. She has witnessed the many crude errors made by the Orange
Order; she has observed their backwards-looking tribalism from close
quarters. Yet all she can come up with is that they are maligned and
misunderstood.
Sunday Times reviewer Walter Ellis on Ruth Dudley Edwards and her apologia
for bigotry, The Faithful Tribe, 11 July 1999
The distillation of loss has been deformed and passed from father to son.
Actor Liam Neeson, who grew up a Catholic in the loyalist stronghold of
Ballymena, blasts the Orange tradition of marking ``some bloody obscure
war''. In reply, Ballymena DUP Councillor Maurice Mills has vowed never to
see Neeson's new Star Wars movie. May the force be with you, Maurice
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