15 July 1999 Edition
Dúirt siad...
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
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