Dublin Orange Lodge (@dublin1313) - Peaceful 12th obviously very effective in annoying our opponents

Previously the Martin McGuinness handshake had deprived loyalist hostility of its substance. Violence is utterly self-defeating. As the News Letter said:"Loyalists have allowed Sinn Fein to depict themselves as the reasonable democrats"  http://t.co/qTflF...

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Alex Kane (@AlexKane221b) - The Mrs Lincoln argument

Alex Kane wrote in the News Letter in June 2014:"At some point we’ll also hear someone deploy a variation of “the vast majority of [Orange Order/loyalist] parades pass off peacefully, it’s only a few that cause problems”. I call this the Mrs Lincoln argument, because it’s a bit like saying to the assassinated president’s wife, “but apart from that, how did you enjoy the play?"And:"People don’t remember, let alone notice, the parades...

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Julian O'Neill - 'Image problem' may explain fall in NI visitor numbers

An "image problem" may explain a fall in visitor numbers to Northern Ireland from across the border, according to a review of the tourism industry.Overnight visitors from the Republic of Ireland declined by 7% in 2013.A report for the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETI) said "social unrest over parades and flags" had potentially had an impact.It also said the local tourism industry was worried about "continuing...

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Matt Bagott tacitly slams unionist politicians for their licensing and indulgence of lawlessness

Matt Bagott tacitly slams unionist politicians for their licensing and indulgence of lawlessness http://tmblr.co/ZTxVUt1K4JoTuAlso said: I think there are times when politicians need to be less risk averse and actually more equivocal that, irrespective of if we like it or not the law is the law.Matt Bagott - In terms of ordinary crime Nothern Ireland is probably the safest place I have ever workedMatt Bagott said to...

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Newton Emerson - Sinn Fein oppose integrated education and mixed housing because it normalises Northern Ireland

Newton Emerson wrote in the Irish News:"As with integrated education, Sinn Fein sees mixed housing as a plot to "normalise" Northern Ireland and therefor partitio...

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John Tongue - Racist attacks damage loyalism

Jonathan Tongue, author of ‘The Democratic Unionist Party: From Protest to Power’ said:“They [loyalists] don’t see how much damage these attacks are doing to their own image, their own communities even if, to be completely fair, loyalist leaders on the ground see this… There is a bit of a Millwall mentality within working-class loyalist communities – the perception that ‘no one likes us, we don’t care’.”And then:“These people...

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Kyle Paisley criticism of Peter Robinson

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