Northern Ireland's Orange Bands Should Stop Marching
Sensibly, many Catholics chose to take their annual summer holidays around the 12th, the more prosperous traveling abroad while the less well-heeled escape across the border into the Republic of Ireland for bucket-and-spade vacations in Donegal or Galway. Those who remain are faced with a stark reminder that for all the strides in healing these divided communities — which, bar sporadic flare-ups, have broadly lived in peace since 1998 — Northern Ireland is not a normal place.
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