ONE step forward and two steps back should be the tag line for the north.

In the month after Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann saw hundreds of thousands take to the streets of Belfast to join in days of music and culture, we’re staring down the barrel of another parades dispute over the Garvaghy Road in Portadown.

The recent High Court decision that quashed a Parades Commission ruling banning an Orange Order march has seen residents terrified that we’re headed back to the bad old days, if they ever really left.

DUP MP Carla Lockhart says the residents have nothing to fear.

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She says nationalism and republicanism “need to emotionally regulate” and “come to the realisation that the position whereby rights are elevated for those from their tradition, and subjugated for those of the unionist and Orange tradition, is no longer sustainable”.

The irony of calling for other people to emotionally regulate from someone in the same party as Gregory Campbell. A man who probably sees Provos in his morning coffee.

Anyway, Carla is calling for the residents to meet with these marching men.

Unlike her........

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