I was greatly honoured to be invited as Grand Marshall of the Cork St Patrick’s Day Parade. Little did I think, growing up as the son of Irish emigrants on Chicago’s south side, that I would be a future Grand Marshall for Ireland’s second largest city.

Michael Flatley is Grand Marshal of this year’s Cork St Patrick’s Day parade.

I THINK that it is, perhaps, time to adopt a more intelligent approach to the problem of the Orange Order than that advocated by Brian P Murphy and Rev David Armstrong.