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

 

Date Title Introduction
28/05/10 Another Senior Orangeman Calls For Unionist Unity

Speaking on Friday night, May 28, at the centenary dinner of Curryfree True Blues LOL 1060, Co. Londonderry, the Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, Edward Stevenson said:

21/05/10 Grand Master Calls For Unionist Unity

Speaking on Friday night, May 21, at the re-opening of Lavin Orange Hall, Co. Antrim, which was destroyed by fire in 2006 the Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, Robert Saulters said:

01/05/10 Rev. Martin Smyth Calls For Big Unionist Turnout

Speaking in Castlederg on Saturday night, May 1, at the unfurling of a new Banner for LOL 379, the Immediate Past Grand Master, the Rev. Martin Smyth said:

02/12/08 Orange Order MLAs Hand In Letter Of Protest To Margaret Ritchie

MLAs, who are members of the Orange Order, today handed in a letter of protest to the office of the Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie in protest about remarks she made recently about the Institution.

22/11/08 Orange Leader Says Outreach Is Better Than Ever

The Grand Master of the Orange Order, Robert Saulters, says the institution is reaching out as never before to explain its traditions.

17/11/08 Loyal Orders Call For Minister Ritchie To Withdraw Remarks

The loyal orders have called for the Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie to withdraw remarks she reportedly made at the weekend.

29/10/08 Orange Order Lobby In Westminster

Senior members of the Orange Order from all over the United Kingdom are in Westminster today, Wednesday, October 29, to lobby against any possible changes to the Act of Union.

14/06/08 Orangemen To Construct A United Front On The Union

A convention of over 600 Scottish Orangemen held in Glasgow on Saturday 14th June pledged to face down any threat to the political integrity of the United Kingdom.

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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