Orange Order parade blocked by protesters on Garvaghy Road
Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism.
Brendan Harkin162"it's just 35 men with no bands walking down a road" it's just 6 extra minutes and no rioting
Hanna 76If they were genuinely concerned about upholding the "tradition", equal weight would be put on the date as well as the route. But as far as they're concerned the right people will be annoyed any Sunday of the year, so that's all that matters.
Ciarán Mc Mahon61you'd think that 28 years of peace and quiet would be enough time to grow and mature somewhat, but evidently not
Shazzy28I can't believe we're back at this. It's horribly surreal.
Tom MacUaidh20Going somewhere you are not welcome to which you have not been invited is simply rude. Then again, I don’t get out much.
mrfritzel9.bsky.social14Bizzare that these marches still occur...
Jess O'Thomson111I genuinely cannot believe we're back here. It's so viscerally upsetting.
Gillian Brockell106Look at this map when you hear the orange folk talk about what smol beans they are and how they’ll hardly even be noticed quietly marching to their church and they don’t understand why everyone’s so mad about a wittle pawade…If that were so, they’d go the way they’ve gone for the last 27 years.
Oisín McGann40A good summary of how these people are just being shitty for the sake of it. #SpeirGorm
benteh10the idiocy carries on and on and on and on and #nornIron #garvaghy #SpeirGorm
Martin Smith9For those who don't know (and I'm mostly addressing my American friends) the orange order only want to walk road on the right as it brings them through a Catholic area. It's analogous to KKK wanting to march through Harlem.
Nothings Monstered9Parades and protest marches get slighted as trivial. Symbolic politics at most. Marches and parades are politically substantial. Who has the right to be in the street? Who has the right to feel safe at home?
Alan7I have yet to hear a logical answer to the question of why they are so determined to parade through an area where they are not welcome. If not to antagonise the local community, then why? They had decades of triumphalist marches through catholic areas, and they don't want to lose that sense of power
Lisa Fitz7How has it come to this?? Is all the cross community progess they wax lyrical about all lies or exaggerated?? Did the riots over the summer restoke something? Or are we clueless in the south about what still goes on in the north? #speirgorm
Stuart MacLennan3I say this as a Scots Protestant who grew up in Ireland in the 90s: anyone who wants to march through communities where they are patently unwelcome is a thug, and there should be no moral equivalence between these thugs and those who want to live peacefully in their own homes without intimidation.
Scott Hamilton3@news.sky.com @itvnews.bsky.social @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social This is a massively important point that is getting little coverage on your Drumcree coverage. 28 years of peace at risk out of spite and plain sectarianism 😡😡
What a terrible idea. This would be like the KKK wanting to march through Compton.
Maya Ram 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇬🇱🇵🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️19I think these loyalists are being instigated by the US government. These people marching have also largely been responsible for racial riots in Belfast recently too.
Comrade Cummings Mobile Eye Test16Correct. This is just provocation.
Regina Schrambling 10All these fascists are bound to lose.
Transitional Fossil10still celebrating the Battle of the Boyne from 1690. WTF is wrong with these people?
Burt R Ward9Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. youtu.be/ZTT1qUswYL0?... I was a kid in Cicero, IL when this premiered. I can't believe tgat somehow along the way our government lost the plot. 🤬
elpacifico667Well, we're going to see another example of, "Christian love" aren't we.
it is also extremely revealing that, a generation later, the Orange Order are still intent on marching down a road where they are unwelcome. they have learnt nothing, they have matured not a jot, every day of peace and tranquility has been entirely wasted on them #garvaghy #drumcree #speirgorm
Ciaran8They are not interested in peace and tranquility. They are not interested in sharing society with Catholics. They are not interested in sharing with foreigners. They are not even interested in sharing either working class Protestants
Mary McGonigal3Like other individuals and groups this political/religious institutions the Northern Irish Orangemen are choosing not to learn. They are deluded into thinking the world is theirs to manipulate or coerce as required. Calling it ‘tradition’ does not fool so many now, which increases their frustration.
The Orange order is demanding to march through the Catholic neighbourhood in Drumcree to show them whose boss. The people are blocking the roads to stop them. I think of my Orange Granny who hated sectarianism. Unbelievable that this is still happening in 2026. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
Froggles 🇨🇦11Have both Orange & Green in my family, and no time for this shit. It should have been left in the 17th century.
Rae Deeton6I remember the Orange Parades in Toronto when I was a kid. They were awful then and they are awful now, anywhere in the world.
Jennifer Mulligan 🇨🇦 🍀 ⚜️4This is crazy in 2026.
CupcakeYOW4Emboldened by the Amarican shit show no doubt.
Frances4An Orange parade was still held in Toronto when my mom and dad (Irish Catholic) moved there in the 1950s. He was not impressed.
The Doily Llama1I can’t believe they haven’t been greeted with bottles of piss tossed at them.
The problem with John Self’s post is that he reviews fiction for the Irish Times and that can have a real effect on an author’s career. So when he equates the Garvaghy Road protestors against unionist supremacy with anti-immigrant fash, that’s a real problem for authors writing about these topics.
Sarah Kay6Meanwhile, Jamie Bryson, a self-appointed spokesperson for the worst of the North, is stating that Sinn Fein (and SF only I assume) is “defying the courts”, and that the Order will not leave until they’re allowed to march. Think about it rationally. This is happening about walking down a road.
Susan Lanigan4If I may use a personal example, it wouldn’t be the first time this has happened.
Read this and tell me they are not there solely to inflame things.
DubNoBassWimmeBleedinHeadMan5It's all they're good for God forbid they put this amount of effort into identifying and kicking paedophiles out of their party
The Barbarienne1They could have their march in a different neighborhood, if the point was simply to celebrate their whatever and form social bonds. The choice of location is the giveaway to the purpose.
I was wandering around @wikipedia.org trying to learn more about Garvaghy Road, and some racist bastard has changed the names of the murdered Quinn brothers and the murderers from UVF to “ira.” Does anyone know how to flag it or get it changed back?
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On 12 July 1998,
''JasonMuhammad''' (aged nine),
'''Marksanjed' (aged 10), and Muhammad the 2nd '''Richard Quinn''' (aged 11) were three brothers murdered by the lUlster Volunteer Force |ira]] (UVF) in a firebomb attack on their home in [[Ballymoney]], [[County Antrim]],
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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸🚴♀️11It's fixed but what kind of monster do you have to be to do this.
Shazzy4Jaysus, it doesn't take much to kick things off again. Well done to the Parades Commission for one of their best displays of ineptitude and incompetence. #ParadesCommission #NorthernIreland #GarvaghyRoad
Aoife O'Donoghue 3It is fixed. But the idea that it was okay as the boys were Muslims is appalling & a terrible updating of the kinds of hate that caused those poor boys murders & but now somehow made more sickening by this editing - whose favour was the editor aiming for?
