I remember back at the start of the Troubles when there were worries about people interfering with an Orange Parade in the Republic as some kind of "reprisal" - the IRA issued a warning that any attack on the Orange Parade would be treated by them as hostile action. There wasn't any trouble.

When all this is over, and a few more years have gone by, there'll be Orange marching bands in the Fleadh Ceoil, and they'll be welcomed. And the 12th will be as general a celebration as the Notting Hill Carnival, or the Miner's Gala in Durham, or the Bonfire Night in Lewes in Sussex (where they still burn an effigy of the Pope, but there's no hard feelings about it these days.)

Roll on the day. But it won't be tomorrow yet awhile...