Religious minorities ‘better treated in North than South’

Northern Protestants treated their minority community better after partition than Southern Catholics did theirs, an Orange Order leader suggested to the Seanad.

In a historic address, the order’s grand secretary Drew Nelson urged Ireland to rejoin the Commonwealth and hold an Orange parade in Dublin.

Appealing for the Republic to do more to preserve its Orange heritage, he criticised reductions in funding to Protestant schools and said border communities felt increasingly excluded.