Sam McBride

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527 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard yesterday

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The Indo Daily · Extra: Garvaghy Road stand-off - Northern Ireland in political turmoil over planned Orange Order march · 28 Sep 2026 podcast

And essentially what that to me said, if you're being really cynical about this, is the residents weren't being threatening enough. voice-verified

And if they had been, the commission might have said, no, you're not doing this. voice-verified

And that's really dangerous. voice-verified

You get into territory here, we are actually incentivising people towards threats when actually the peace process and the commission and all of this architecture is meant to be moving us away from the idea that parades are things that tend towards violence, that tend towards aggression. voice-verified

And we had been succeeding in that. voice-verified

I mean, this has been probably the most successful initiative. voice-verified

number of years for the Orange Order in terms of de-escalating a lot of these things. voice-verified

That's been good for everybody. voice-verified

Look at the flag just a few weeks ago. voice-verified

Genuine, sincere respect for loyalist bands coming and playing at that. voice-verified

We've got the T-shirt coming along and tapping his toe to some of these bands. voice-verified

That's all in the past now. voice-verified

And that's where this becomes much, much more dangerous. voice-verified

home. voice-verified

I mean, the only aspect of this, just to bring some perspective on this, is that while this is a dreadful situation, it's scary for people who are living there, people in other places. voice-verified

Lots of other people will feel very strongly about this, even if they're nowhere near this situation. voice-verified

This is still something which is happening peacefully. voice-verified

People are arguing about it. voice-verified

They are in storm and debating it. voice-verified

They're walking out. voice-verified

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