Drew Nelson

Drew Nelson, a good Orangeman, dies…

Mick Fealty on October 10, 2016, 2:24 pm

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Senior Co Down Orangeman and former UUP election candidate Drew Nelson has died at the age of 60. He wasn’t the most public facing Orangeman, which is probably explained by the fact that for most of his life he eschewed big public gestures and worked on smaller but telling reforms. For a younger generation of Orangemen and Ulster Unionists, he advocated for separation and provided an exemplar of the progressive worker with a taste for slow, patient and incremental reform. He …

Respect?

John Ó Néill on October 1, 2012, 10:05 am

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[click here if image doesn’t show] From today’s Irish News (h/t to @Short_Strand). Doesn’t really need much more comment. Sorry to rain on anyone’s parade, but you know what us Fenian bastards are like. At least in the case of the bandsman urinating on the church gates, the Grand Secretary of the Orange Order was quick out of the blocks this morning to the BBC: Mr Nelson said the incident was “outrageous and unacceptable”. He apologised unreservedly to the priest and parishioners of …

Head of the Orange Order addresses the upper house in Dublin…

Mick Fealty on July 3, 2012, 12:02 pm

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So two paint attacks on Orange Halls, and a bit of post parade clashing down near the Short Strand might be considered fairly mild compared to how the Orange marching season has been ‘celebrated’ in past years. But today the head of the Orange Drew Nelson is in Dublin to address that most gentile of parliamentary houses Seanad Eireann. His address will consist of responses by the main party groups, including Fine Gael, Fianna Fail and Labour and a two …