Love Ulster must leave the flags at home

YOUR editorial of March 20, in which you welcome the decision by Willie Frazer of FAIR (Families Acting for Innocent Relatives) to seek permission to hold a Love Ulster march in Dublin next September is, in my view, very regrettable.

While I fully endorse one’s right to assemble and march, within the parameters of the law and with due recognition of civilised behaviour, the inclusion of members of the Orange Order and loyalist bandsmen can only be regarded as a deliberate attempt by Mr Frazer to provoke a reaction.

If this proposed march, as Mr Frazer claims, is to highlight the suffering of victims of violence in the North, why is it confined to Protestant victims of republican violence?