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WE SAY: Prams and prayers on the Garvaghy Road

Whatever the verdict from this week's court challenge against the iniquitous decision to force an Orange march down Garvaghy Road — and at the time of writing, no ruling has been handed down — one thing is clear: the peace will be defended.

WE SAY: Embattled Garvaghy community will take no law lectures from DUP

There has been a hilarious irony in having the beleaguered residents of the Garvaghy Road lectured on the merits of the law by assorted DUP dullards over the past week.

WE SAY: Garvaghy Road call is a no-brainer

IF Paddy Power was laying a book on the imminent Parades Commission decision on the Orange Order’s latest application to march along the Garvaghy Road it is likely the company would have paid out early by now.

WE SAY: Trump has let the Irish reunification genie out of the bottle

Taoiseach Micheál Martin must have thought he had succeeded once again in negotiating a tricky meeting with the mercurial President Trump when a British journalist lobbed a hand grenade.

WE SAY: If Mr Burnham can find £39bn to do up Houses of Parliament, then why's he shortchanging us?

Poor Andy Burnham must be pulling out his dyed hair trying to understand the barbarous Irish — and no doubt he brands both Planter and Gael as Paddies — after his first funding offer to the Executive was stamped 'return to sender' and dispatched back across the Irish Sea.

WE SAY: Garvaghy isn’t the biggest prize

ANYONE who believes for a second that the renewed focus on the Garvaghy Road is about religious freedom and inalienable rights needs to focus a little bit more on the dramatis personae of this bleak new production of a grim old drama.

WE SAY: Disturbing the ghosts of Drumcree

The glee among loyalism at this week's court decision on the Orange march down the Catholic Garvaghy Road in Portadown was more evidence, is such were needed, of the cul-de-sac of sectarianism in which the unionist parties now find themselves.

WE SAY: Fleadh spirit of unity must prevail year-round

Hats off to those two momentous summer celebrations, the World Cup and Mayo's All-Ireland victory, branded by sports fans and media commentators alike as unsurpassed moments of unbridled joy.

WE SAY: For Fleadh's sake, let's keep hitting these high notes

One wag remarked, after the spectacular success of Sunday's Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann opening ceremony at City Hall that, "we should do this every week".

WE SAY: Take your places....Fest, Fleadh and Féile ring the changes

CS Lewis famously said that when living through change, it's all but invisible.

WE SAY: DUP Minister's latest broadside on Irish language will further undermine Executive

What gives with DUP Minister Paul Givan and the Irish language?

WE SAY: Taoiseach's belated word in the ear of IDA must usher in new economic era

Primary criticism of the Irish Government's Shared Island initiative is that cross-border projects approved for funding must pass, in the words of one Dublin diplomat, 'The Jeffrey Donaldson smell test'.

WE SAY: Spectre of MI5 makes normal policing all but impossible

Hardly a week passes now without representatives of the state having to appear before the courts in Belfast to apologise for past murderous misdemeanours and pay substantial damages to relatives and survivors of their 30-year campaign of collusion.

WE SAY: DUP take hypocrisy to a new level

The late Rev. Ian Paisley was fond of quoting Matthew 7:5 when accusing his political opponents of hypocrisy, "Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye."

WE SAY: Brexiteers' dream now a nightmare but restoring links to EU doesn't have to wait until unification

For those deluded souls who really believed Boris Johnson's encomium about the "sunlit uplands" of Brexit this really is the worst of times.

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