The vast majority of people, and I am amongst them, will welcome the entirely sensible decision not to allow what would have been an entirely provocative march by the Orange Order down the Garvaghy Road. And for most of us, with 83% of those polled in the Republic saying the march shouldn’t proceed, the opposition was visceral and instinctive.
Almost as instinctive was the feeling that there was something deeply peculiar about the inexplicable decision to stir up so much anger and upset after 28 years.