IT’S easy to be snide about RTÉ’s Ireland’s Greatest Figures: far too many people born in the 1970s, a blank as far as the world of science is concerned, very few people who have actually made any money, no one of an identifiably unionist persuasion, and so on.

A groundbreaking agreement which will see thousands of Orangemen parade in the nationalist West Bank of Derry next month was today held up as a example for others involved parading disputes.