In the aftermath of the annual sectarian hatefest known by some as ‘The Glorious Twelfth’, the appearance of identical anti-immigration banners at various hate pyre sites in Mid-Ulster again exposes the links between Unionist death squads and their far-right bedfellows, both in the Twenty-Six Counties and further afield.

An Orange Order lodge is formally objecting to bilingual street-names in Portadown, Co. Armagh. Given the organisation's history in Portadown, and elsewhere in the Six Counties, such a stance is unsurprising.

Mark Payne, a ‘Save Our Children’ vigilante from Belfast, was previously convicted of attempting to MURDER a 14-year-old child!

This Saturday evening (2nd August) in Portadown at least fifteen bands and several hundred other participants and supporters will take part in yet another controversial, sectarian parade in the County Armagh town. On average, well over forty such parades are held in Portadown each year, the majority of them organised by the Orange Order, the Black Institution, and other unionist groups.

Given the disturbances in Ballymena on both Monday and Tuesday nights (9th & 10th June), it should come as no surprise that the far-right and their followers in various parts of the Six Counties