Good community relations

It's a pity that sash-clad Orangemen returning from bashing their Lambeg drums, etc, in Belfast or Enniskillen decided that displaying Union Jacks on buses, goading and causing mayhem in or outside the vicinity of the town of convoy in Donegal would be good for community relations. This type of provocative demonstration has the potential to create division where none previously existed.

It may seem acceptable for Orangemen and their drunken followers insisting on burning effigies of Catholicism and the tricolour on their bonfires in their artificially created wee farce of a state. While Willie Frazer wants to go to Dublin for round two of his love my piece of Ulster campaign, the good people of Dublin, like the good people of Donegal, know only too well what emanates from the Orange Order as an institution that never strays too far from public disorder and conflict.

An example of how to behave in public should be taken from the recent gay-pride parade in Dublin, which did not inflict fear on anyone in any community. Take a leaf from this and Orangemen might get a bigger love than they anticipated in all their dreams.