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by treerock 1418 days ago
The Orange Order marches?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_walk

I'm not sure they can be described as "anti Irish".

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You should visit Northern Ireland during marching season - around July 12th - and then decide whether or not you think Orange matches could be described as “anti Irish”.

Unless you’re going to engage in a bit of sophistry - “the people who participate might be anti-Irish but the actual Orange Order as an organisation is simply expressing its fondness for the Act of Union” - I don’t see how you could not see the anti-Irish aspects of the Orange matches.