Orangeman deserves a Rebel welcome
He can’t find a reference to them in the Bible so, in Nelson’s blinkered view, they don’t exist... as Christians.
They might exist as second-class citizens, but that is about as far as he is prepared to venture.
When an application was made to Belfast City Council to fund the Celtic Film Festival, Cllr McCausland rejected it because “this is not a Celtic country”. What a wit!
Nelson has yet another claim to fame. When unionist thugs were blockading Holy Cross School in Belfast, he was fulminating on the radio, but not about the attack on little children and their parents trying to get to school.
No, Nelson was raging about the GAA’s Sam Maguire Cup being named after an “IRA terrorist”. Betcha he didn’t know that Sam was a West Cork Protestant from Dunmanway. That kind of fact wouldn’t register on the McCausland Richter scale.
Now I see that Nelson is to lead the Orangemen in Cork city, in Sam Maguire’s home county, on St Patrick’s Day. I hope the people of Rebel Cork give him a good rebel welcome, and ask him why he is so opposed to nationalists celebrating the same event in Belfast.
The people of Cork should attempt to prise open the lid of Orange prejudice and point out that we do not accept that a person’s religious preference could or should be confused with his or her sense of nationality.
Jeremy Marksman
Drinagh East
Dunmanway
Co Cork
