{"id":790622,"date":"2026-10-03T11:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T11:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790622\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T11:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T11:38:08","slug":"three-decades-of-progress-should-not-be-taken-for-granted-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790622\/","title":{"rendered":"Three decades of progress should not be taken for granted \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 As a Protestant living in Ireland who believes passionately in building good relations across our communities, I am deeply disappointed to see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/10\/01\/from-local-row-to-peace-process-shambles-how-the-drumcree-standoff-developed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/10\/01\/from-local-row-to-peace-process-shambles-how-the-drumcree-standoff-developed\/\">Garvaghy Road<\/a> become a source of confrontation this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Almost three decades of progress should not be taken for granted. We need to protect what has been achieved rather than reopen the divisions of the past. \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">CLLR LORRAINE HALL,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">D\u00fan Laoghaire, <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 John Dillon\u2019s solution to the Garvaghy Road <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/orange-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/orange-order\/\">Orange march<\/a> is to discombobulate the marchers by having the residents applauding and cheering them from the sidelines (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/letters\/2026\/10\/01\/applause-for-orangemen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/letters\/2026\/10\/01\/applause-for-orangemen\/\">Applause for Orangemen?<\/a>\u201d, Letters, October 1st). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">I must say that I was very disappointed that, as a Regius professor of Greek (Emeritus), he didn\u2019t suggest getting the marchers up the road inside a Trojan Horse. \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">KEVIN O\u2019SULLIVAN,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Letterkenny,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Co Donegal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 As a Protestant living in Ireland who believes passionately in building good relations across our communities,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,1647,251083,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-790622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-northern-ireland","tag-orange-order","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}