Letter to the Editor: Culture of intimidation lives on in the North

A bonfire is lit on Belfast's Lower Newtownards Road as part of a loyalist tradition to mark the anniversary of the Protestant King William's victory over the Catholic King James at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Photo: PA

RUC member Billy McCaughey, who killed a Catholic pharmacist in 1977, noted: "I was never expelled from the Orange Order.” 

The author and commentator Susan McKay observed in consequence: “An Orangeman may not marry a Catholic. However, he may, it seems, kill one.”