Northern Ireland and the blockade of the Orange Order that revives ghosts of a violent past
The fact that the Orange Order, a Protestant fraternity, intends to travel this Sunday for the first time on 29 years Garvaghy Road, an area of Catholic and nationalist majority in Portadown, Northern Ireland, reopens a sensitive dispute. For Protestant unionists, who want to continue to be part of the United Kingdom, the march is a cultural expression; the nationalist residents who oppose it, supporters of a unified Ireland, consider it sectarian and triumphalist. The track remains blocked and, for now, there is no solution in sight.
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The fact that the Orange Order, a Protestant fraternity, intends to travel this Sunday for the first time on 29 years Garvaghy Road, an area of Catholic and nationalist majority in Portadown, Northern Ireland, reopens a sensitive dispute. For Protestant unionists, who want to continue to be part of the United Kingdom, the march is a cultural expression; the nationalist residents who oppose it, supporters of a unified Ireland, consider it sectarian and triumphalist. The track remains blocked and, for now, there is no solution in sight.
