Balmoral Review

Who’s marching, where and when? And when is a parade a feeder parade?

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on April 14, 2012, 3:34 pm

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In the Belfast Telegraph, Brian Rowan picks up on Jackie McDonald’s comments about the Balmoral Review on May 19. Answering a question from a delegate in the Future of Loyalism panel at the Political Studies Association conference in Belfast, the senior UDA leader had referred to loyalist groups taking part in the parade and questioned whether Short Strand residents would feel threatened as the parade passed by. Jackie McDonald has confirmed that he will be marching after all, “as a …

Balmoral Review – fireworks, food, funfair, parades and speeches

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on April 10, 2012, 8:30 am

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Jackie McDonald’s remarks at the Political Studies Association conference about the Orange Order’s planned parade to Ormeau Park in May stirred up a lot of comments on Slugger. Answering a question after his speech, the former UDA prisoner painted a vision of “the UVF in the Somme gear” and “antique motors with the machine guns on them and all the paramilitary flags” passing by parts of Short Strand behind the Orange lodges and bands. On Easter Tuesday 1912, a large …