YOU have to feel for them, the Orange Order. To be the victims of such discrimination must be awful.

For instance, since 1999, the Orange Order and fellow unionists have held somewhere in the region of 60,000 parades. About 12,000 of those were Orange Order led. 97% of all marches are granted without any restrictions.

Orangefest, established by the County Grand Lodge of Belfast in 2007, received £41,000 from the Department for Communities last year, and a total of nearly £800,000 over the previous decade.

Irish government-backed programmes have also provided millions to projects involving a group that demands members explicitly promise to “protest against and oppose the erroneous and dangerous doctrines” of the Roman Catholic Church, and loyalty to a murderous colonial crown.

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