As one who was born and bred in Belfast, I am appalled at the complete lack of knowledge from some of the above posts, especially from some "GUESTS".

To put it in a nutshell, the weekend of riots by loyalists was not caused because they could not march, it was because they could not march through a catholic district. In othere words their marches
(approx 4,000) from May to September are not marches to define or retain their culture, the reason for the marces is simply to antagonize their catholic neighbours. These marches do not mean anything to the orange order unless they accomplish that goal.

Antagonise, insult, etc etc etc. NO MORE. Orange marches through catholic areas would be the same as the american army marching through Hiroshima, or marching through Georgia, year in and year out. NO MORE. Hold their marches through loyalist areas as there will be no trouble. Period.

This violence wa orchestrated simply to ensure the catholic areas will feel threatened and maybe have to call on the I.R.A. for protection, then the loyalists and their politicians can start squaking about the I.R.A. breaking another promise.

The marches have nothing to do with culture, they have to do with antagonism, and if they fail to accomplish that, then the reason for marching at all will have lost it's meaning and hopefully they will just fade away, much like the orange order is doing.