Forget about national holiday for bigots

IN expressing a welcome for the Galway Council of Trade Union’s motion to the ICTU’s annual conference in Belfast to declare July 12 a national holiday “in recognition of other traditions on the island of Ireland”...

... Paul Kinsella confers a dubious respectability on the sectarian Orange Order (‘Orange day should be a national holiday,’ Irish Examiner letters, June 22).

Celebrating the bigotry of the Orange Order is not unlike the Ku Klux Klan being celebrated in Mississippi, or celebrating the neo-Nazis strutting their stuff in Jerusalem.