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Listed below are a selection of press statements relative to politics.

 

Date Title Introduction

19/01/06

Order Says Victims Voice Must Be Heard The Orange Order said today it would encourage its members to attend the planned Victims Rally to be held in Dublin next month.

7/09/05

Orange Order Seeks Meeting with US Consul on Columbia Three THE ORANGE ORDER has asked for a meeting with the US Consul in Northern Ireland to discuss the future of the three IRA men convicted of terrorist offences in Columbia.
18/03/05 Orange Order Hosts Meeting Between DUP And UUP

The Orange Institution has confirmed that it hosted a meeting today between the Democratic Unionist Party and the Ulster Unionist Party.

12/05/03 County Down Has Security Concerns

County Down Grand Orange Lodge at its Meeting on Saturday condemned the removal of two security watchtowers in South Armagh.

31/03/03 Orange Order Urges Government To
Wage War On"Backyard" Terrorism

The Orange Order today called on the British Government to wage its war on terrorism at home as well as abroad.

24/03/03 Best Wishes To Our Troops

The Orange Order has sent a message of solidarity and good wishes to British servicemen and women serving in the war in Iraq.

08/11/02 Order expresses rock-solid support for Gibraltar
Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland expresses support for the people of Gibraltar in their desire to remain British.

06/08/02 Parades Commission Double Standards

The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland accuses the Parades Commission of double standards in their comments about the Orange parade in Ardoyne on 12th July 2002.

24/10/01 Decommissioning

The Grand Lodge welcomes the beginning of long overdue decommissioning of terrorist weapons.

21/05/01 Disgust At Court Award

County Armagh Grand Orange Lodge expresses concern at the awards to families of I.R.A. terrorists shot at Loughgall.

30/03/01 Human Rights Commission

Initial reaction to Human Rights report on Parades.

25/29/00 Civic Forum The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland has expressed regret and amazement at the fact that its commitment to community life in Northern Ireland has not been recognized through appointment to the Civic Forum.

09/12/99 Opposition To Minister Of Education The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland has expressed its revulsion and total opposition to the appointment of Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness as Minister of Education in the new Northern Ireland Assembly Executive.

16/11/99 No Guns - No Government

The Orange Order in County Armagh has urged all unionists not to surrender to the demands of Sinn Fein-I.R.A.

17/06/98 Sinn Fein/I.R.A. Manipulation

Sinn Fein/I.R.A. are manipulating certain resident groups with a view to preventing or impeding Orangemen in the exercise of their civil rights.

12/05/98 Grand Lodge Rejects The Agreement

Since the publication of "The Agreement" we have given it careful and detailed consideration. We had hoped that it would offer such a real prospect of peace that we could positively endorse it. Sadly that has not been the case.

06/03/97

Sinn Fein Presence In Residents Groups

The involvement of Sinn Fein in so called Residents Groups opposing Orange Parades has been denounced as a continuing part of the campaign of Ethnic Cleansing against the Protestant people of Ulster.

05/03/97

Sinn Fein Exposed - Again!

The revelations on last night's R.T.E.'s Prime Time Programme should not have surprised anyone.

05/03/97

Message from the Grand Secretary

The facts revealed last night by R.T.E. on their Prime Time Programme would have been very revealing to many people but not to the Senior Officers of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland.

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