Breaking news on RTE this morning is that there are indications that the Orange Order and nationalists residents in Northern Ireland are about to formally end a three-year-old row about parading.
Does this strike anyone else as odd or is it just me? With all that’s going on in the world at the moment such as children being pulled from rubble in Syria, riots in the US over the killing of a black resident, the shooting dead of three women in the States, this parade agreement is making headlines here. The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has welcomed the move so it must be big news.
So what’s the story? Well, a bunch of adults have almost agreed to allow each other to march up and down without throwing stones at each other. Earth shattering stuff. Although to be fair, it is probably a big story if you happen to own a quarry.