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Members of the Garda riot squad in action on O’Connell St, Dublin, in 2006, as protesters to the ‘Love Ulster parade’ started attacking gardaí and property. Picture: Leon Farrell /Photocall Ireland

LOVE Ulster. I only have to mention the words, and a whole generation here in the South of Ireland is swept back to February 2006 — to the first loyalist march consisting mostly of relatives of IRA murder victims to take place through Dublin city centre since Partition.

Willie Frazer, the loyalist founder of Families Acting for Innocent Relatives, saw nothing untoward about replicating the scenes of the annual July 12 commemoration in the North by parading bands and men costumed in sashes and top hats through the streets of the capital.