Anne Cadwallader's in the "Irish Echo" for November 27 - December 3, 1996,
writing from Belfast -
The bizarre sight of Orangemen marching through the snow greeted the
villagers of Dunloy, County Antrim, last week as beshashed brethern
attempted to parade from the local Orange Hall three months after the
usual marching season.
Orange Order parades are more normally (%*@) held in July and August,
but protests had blocked the holding of the Orange parade through the
mainly nationalist village of Dunloy, so the order tried again at the
weekend.
Local people, organizing under the banner of the Dunloy Residents
and Parents Group, said they would allow the parade through, provided
the Orange Order sought their consent first through direct, face-to-face
meetings. The order refused to meet local people, insisting it will
only negotiate its route with the RUC - the same RUC who stopped them
after their pushing and shoving capers.
DUP's Ian Paisley Jr., (like father like son) speaking at Dunloy,
called local people "republicans, thugs and scum." He predicted
widespread protests after the parade was blocked. These protests
would be "out of control," he said, and made dire predictions of
what form they would take.
One likely form is in the stepped-up picketing of a Catholic chapel
at Harryville, a suburb of the County Antrim town of Balymena. For
about 15 weeks, people attending Mass there have had to run a gauntlet
of loyalist protestors shouting abuse and throwing firecrackers.
Loyalists have equated Catholics attending Mass in the predominently
Protestant town of Ballymena with Orangemen parading to church in
the predominantly Catholic village of Dunboy.
"Fenian Bastards" is their ecumenical chant. Peace Process me A.
Terrorism ....
"The Committee"
The Beat goes on
Anne Cadwallader again in the "Irish Echo" for December 4 - 10, 1996,
writing from Belfast -
An inceasingly bitter sectarian campaign being waged by loyalists
against churchgoers in Ballymena took a turn for the worse this week
when Catholics were dragged from their cars and stoned, while rioters
set a bus on fire....... a terrified woman was dragged from her car
and it was wrecked......
Loyalist say they will not allow Catholics to attend Mass unhindered
until their co-religionists at Dunloy are allowed to parade through
their village. Their actions appear to be coordinated by the local UVF.
..........
Catholics in Dunloy say that 73 local Presbyterian families attend
services in the village's Protestant church each Sunday, unhindered
and in peace and are resolute that they won't be "blackmailed" by the
violence at Harryville.
..........
Meanwhile, speaking at the weekend's annual DUP Conference, the party
leader, the Rev. Ian Paisley, told delegates that President Clinton
and Sen. George Mitchell are "no friends of Ulster" and are part of
the "Kennedy lobby in Boston out to destroy us."
In a vetern tub-thumping speech to delegates, Paisley left no political
figure unscathed, Clinton and Mitchell were joined in the lexicon of
hate by John Hume, Gerry Adams, David Trimble, the fringe loyalist
parties, Prime Minister Major, Michael Ancram and others.
Paisley should clarify the term Ulster - his benefactor England, took
six of the nine Ulster counties and set up the statelet they now call
Northern Ireland.
Archbishop ...
Persecution ...
Slick - Done Good ...
Call the Shots ...
Cathedrals ...
Compassion
Eames
These peacemakers won Nobel Peace
prizes for this.
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