"It's happening all over again"
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Good afternoon. You are very welcome to Live Line. O eight seven four eight four double eight double eight is the WhatsApp number. If you want to get in touch that way, you can send me an email. Liveline at RTE dot IE. Or as always, you can give me a call on O eight one eight seven one five eight one five. Despite the chorus of calls for people to boycott the uh Ireland Israel game uh last night. I've got the viewing figures. More people watch this on RTE television than watched the Kosovo game a couple of nights previously. So there was an interest in it. Now, how many people were just watching out of curiosity? I don't know, but certainly uh the viewing figures were better for last night's game for that 3-0 victory.
There were some Irish in the stadium. We're going to be speaking to one of them a little bit later on the show today. This fella uh blagged his way in, I understand, and even ended up having this interesting interaction with some of the Israeli fans. So we're going to find out all about that a little bit later. Like I say, if we want to get in touch on that issue, O eight seven four eight four double eight double eight. We'll kick things off though with what is happening uh in the north and in Drumcree and Garvahi Road and Chris Nelson actually as well is going to be talking to us.
Why has the Drumcree and Garvaghy Road parade dispute returned?
He'll be joining us uh not long after two o'clock, the son of Rosemary Nelson. That name will of course ring a bell for So many people murdered by the LVF in 99, but before that, the human rights lawyer represented the Garvahi Road Residents Association. The latest on that issue at the moment is that the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Chris Bryant, has met Orange Order members. I think that meeting has been described as constructive. He is meeting with Garvahi residents' representatives as we speak. Speak as soon as we get some update on that, we will let you know, but the standoff continues, quite literally, standoff continues as we speak uh on Garvahi Road. Uh uh Gregory Campbell uh joins us on the line.
Gregory, you're very welcome uh to the show. Um Thank you. What what is your suggestion by way of solution to this impasse?
Well, I I think uh because of the problems the past forty eight hours have created, uh I think what we have to reestablish is what most democratic nations do as a sort of a foundational principle, and it is the rule of law. Because in in any democratic country, whatever about the political complexities there are and difficulties and differences there are, but in any democratic country a fundamental building block on which everything else is built is that everyone that is in government or aspires to be in government accepts that the rule of law must prevail. Now that that appeared to be the case up until this weekend because theoretically at least Sinn Fein had uh they had said to us and said to the British government and to the Irish government and to everyone else
We accept the rule of law. They didn't used to accept it, but they said that they would not. Um and it would appear that that was the case. Uh but at the weekend all of that disappeared. And, you know, with that dis what disappeared was this whole concept of a shared island, a new Ireland, the acceptance of diversity, an island of equals, that all disappeared as well. Because at this weekend we have seen what uh the future holds and I'm afraid it's a very dark future. Unless everybody can say, let's get back to first principles, let's accept the rule of law must prevail. Once we get that as the bedrock, we can then build a And we have to try and reach accommodations where we accept there are many people that I don't like, I don't like their outlook, I don't accept their cultural background, but I have to accept that that's what they hold.
And they have to do likewise with me and with my community. And that's that's at the bedrock of this problem.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:36
2
Why has the Drumcree and Garvaghy Road parade dispute returned?
1:36–7:06
3
What does the Parades Commission ruling mean for Garvaghy Road residents?
7:06–13:14
4
Should political leaders follow parade rulings even when they disagree?
13:14–22:44
5
How could residents and marchers resolve the Garvaghy Road standoff?
22:44–27:30
6
Could a compromise parade route prevent future Drumcree tensions?
27:30–30:10
7
How can Irish traditions be respected across community divides?
30:10–35:54
8
What was it like growing up as Rosemary Nelson’s child during the Drumcree protests?
35:54–48:48