Report: Absence of violence in Drumcree does not make standoff any less significant

The Guardian — World has reported on “Report: Absence of violence in Drumcree does not make standoff any less significant,” presenting it as the central development in the source material available for this brief.

Row comes against the backdrop of rising division and a tendency towards cynical political posturing in Northern Ireland Three decades ago, it took the deaths of three Roman Catholic children – the Quinn brothers, Jason, nine, Mark, 10, and 11-year-old Richard – in a petrol bomb attack to bring an end to the Drumcree dispute. The report also notes that “No road is worth a life, let alone the lives of three little boys,” the Orange Order’s County Armagh chaplain stated at the time. It is perhaps extraordinary to think that this could ever have needed saying – but that was then. Northern Ireland is very different place today.

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