We've forgotten Order's shame
Recent media attempts to portray the Orange Order as misrepresented liberals or misunderstood pluralists, and the 12th of July marches as Europe's largest folk festival, have been a resounding failure.
All the soft-focus media airbrushing or high-powered spin doctoring cannot disguise the true nature of this sectarian organisation or its supremacist raison d'etre.
Have we forgotten the sight of tens of thousands of Northern Catholics fleeing across the border every 11th of July to escape the annual orgy of pyromania and bigotry which passes for 'Orangefest'?
The history of the Orange Order is a shameful litany of intimidation and supremacy.
I regard this funding of the Orange Order as an endorsement of sectarianism. Such sectarianism has no place in a tolerant, diverse society.
TOM COOPER
KNOCKLYON, DUBLIN 16
