Marches and memories

THE suggestion by Keith Nolan that the proposed Dublin parade by the ‘Love Ulster’ group should pause to remember the bombings of 1974 “where so-called loyalists perpetrated the biggest mass murder in Irish history” is to be welcomed (Letters, Jan 5).

If these people respond positively to Mr Nolan’s suggestion, perhaps they might also include the three Dublin bus workers who were similarly murdered by ‘loyalist activists’ in two bombings there on December 1, 1972 and January 20, 1973.

Better still, perhaps the march organisers will reconsider their decision to invite the sectarian Orange Order and members of loyalist paramilitary groups. Provocative sectarian marches should not be allowed under the guise of remembering victims of violence. Have we learned anything from the poison that is Drumcree?