Is the Order up for tackling the Elephant?

With just four weeks to this year’s July 12th parades, the Orange Order have signalled their intention to get tough on paedophiles and have issued a not welcome message (of sorts) to the street drinking battalions accompanying the jolly Brethren on parade.
Of course, the elephant on procession remains the overtly sectarian element, who will once again insist on parading in unwelcome confines and those who will use the occasion as an excuse to raise the flag and bunting in ‘mixed’ residential/ commercial areas.
So what prospect is there of progress on these fronts, which would do more to transform the Order’s image at a stroke than any number of ‘family-oriented’ bouncy castles and face painters at the Field? Any thoughts out there?

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