ARE we winning yet? Is this the great, glorious victory we’ve always wanted?

I remember Drumcree in 1998. An Orangeman lived across the street from us.

One day his daughter, a friend of mine, ran over to our house. “We won!” she exclaimed, bouncing up and down.

I repeated the phrase to my mum. Face like thunder, eyes like slits, she pulled me to one side. “Never, ever say that again,” she snapped. I never did.

Sarah Creighton: Drumcree is a f*** you to nationalism. Is this really what victory looks like for unionism?

Brian Feeney: The problem at Drumcree is the Orange Order, and has been for 200 years

Drumcree sends shivers down our spine because people remember what happened.

We remember the Quinn boys and those three white coffins. We remember the despair of it all.

For many unionists and loyalists, the Quinn murders brought about collective shame.

People loyal to the union flag murdered those boys in cold blood. Drumcree is a nightmare people pass down to their children.

There’s a reason why the march was banned and never revisited for 30 years.

There’s a reason why unionists left it alone as they tried to build peace in Northern Ireland.

Drumcree, the Quinn children, were a reckoning. Trimble asked his brethren to “…leave the hill…” because he knew enough was enough.

What part of Drumcree inspires nostalgia? When loyalists stood in Portadown holding placards saying “No Taigs here”?

When loyalists threw a........

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