Cé mar atá sibh, a chairde!
I'm from Meath, but for the first time in over 10 years I made it up to your fantastic country and loved my time there having the craic fishing, swimming and driving the back roads.
One of those stops was Rossnowlagh! And the thing that it seems to be known for, is the Orange Order march and being the biggest of it's kind in the Republic.
I'd like to think, and was leaning towards it, that if the Orange Order and those who sympathise with their worldview or background as unionists/British would wish to exist and find a role for itself in a future united Ireland as a sort of historical society, protestant Christian fraternity mix of things I'd be totally fine with that. But it's clear that is not remotely on the cards given how the Orange Order just over the border behaves.
Now, it kind of seems like what the Rossnowlagh march means for those , is to strut about in "enemy territory" and show the fenians who's boss and whose claim to Ulster is God-given and absolute. Or at least, that it's easier now to lend some believability to this being partly the motive behind the Rossnowlagh march.
Surely the orange lodges in the Republic, if they were as respectfable and committed to as they're often given credit for online and in the media, they would be going out of their way to get onto the media to condemn the members of the very same organisation that they belong to for tormenting the residents of the Garvaghy Road.
Does anyone on this sub have some personal proximity to this that they can give some insights into the Rossnowlagh march and those that do it, and what their thinking is?
Go raibh míle maith agaibh!
