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[Robert Thompson (he/him) @Rgt71Robert]

Drumcree brings up so many mixed emotions for me. Portadown is my home town. We worshipped at Seagoe Church of Ireland parish, across the Bann. Some of my relatives belong to the Orange Order, though they were never involved in the Drumcree march. I know the decency, family ties and sense of belonging that membership can hold. Sure, I held the strings on the Orange banners with my grandad and uncles for many years in my childhood.

As a sixth former, and later a theology student, I also knew the Jesuit community on the Garvaghy estate and their grassroots work for justice and peace. Jesuit voices have continued to shape me: from Gerard Manley Hopkins and George Tyrrell to their contributions to liberation theology and Catholic social teaching. One of the Jesuit houses in a London is in the parish I now serve, in the road just behind the Vicarage.

My family background and my developing theology met and still meet in those relationships with real human beings. People complicated the boundaries I inherited. Stereotyping simply could not do justice to the people I knew.

That is why watching these pictures today touches something so deep. Affection, gratitude and belonging sit alongside profound unease about the historic churches’ entanglement with sectarianism in the north of Ireland.

The Church of Ireland has wrestled with this before. In 1999, General Synod asked for the customary invitation to the Drumcree service to be withdrawn if the Orange lodges refused assurances about lawful conduct, respect for worship and keeping church property free from subsequent civil protest.

In 2000, amid violence, Robin Eames said: “I see nothing of Jesus Christ in the nightly actions on Drumcree hill”. He also recognised the disgust felt by decent Orangemen. Both belong in the telling.

Claire Hanna’s statement makes a crucial point: what is being asked of each side is not equal. For residents, this is home, the place where they raise their families and live with the consequences. The parade has other routes.

My mixed emotions do not make that distinction disappear. Knowing and loving people within a tradition does not oblige us to defend everything done in its name. It gives us a responsibility to speak honestly.

Sometimes faithfulness means choosing another road. Here, taking the road less travelled might mean giving up the familiar route for the sake of our neighbours. That could make all the difference.

Belonging and identity are important. So is what our belonging does to other people.

We cannot proclaim Christ’s peace inside a church and treat our neighbours’ fear as irrelevant outside it. The right to walk a road does not settle the Christian question of whether we should. Love of neighbour must shape the route we choose as well as the prayers we say.

The Gospel must be free to challenge everything we cherish. Our traditions. Our churches. Ourselves.

[Gavin Cooney @gcooney93]

Big read here on an abject, rancorous, extraordinary day. The potential scale of fallout to come is the stuff of Saipan 2.0

Ireland v Israel: Day of Infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAI

https://t.co/MQJZZH4sGh

[Peter Scully @Petscul]

Worth reliving again.
26th July Mayo changed the world.
2 months on I still crying a little. Getting better but will never be right.

Happy 26th of the month.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

“Instead of respecting the law, those in power invoke it when it serves their interests and disregard it when it restrains them, treating even justice itself as though it were a commodity to be bought and sold.” — Pope Leo XIV

[Maurice Brosnan @m_brosnan]

Video report from Garrymore last night.

Dogs 🪖
The Wild West 🟩🟥
Split season 📈

[John Stagg @JohnStagg5]

Thanks Jugger!

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

The problem is not people being uneducated.
The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.

[Fran Mallon @FranMallon1]

An amazing video of Dolly Parton singing one of her most famous songs in Páidí Ó Sé’s pub in Ventry Co. Kerry 🇮🇪 in 1990
How did Páidí pull that coup off
#RIPDolly

[Declan Ganley @declanganley]

Sam crosses into Achill!!!

[Edwin McGreal @edmcgreal]

This was something else ... Sam Maguire and All Ireland champions Jack Carney, Donnacha McHugh and Diarmuid O Connor piped onto Achill Island by local pipe bands. The place was heaving. It was emotional and evocative. The gift that keeps on giving 💚❤️

[Ah Ref! @RefComeOn]

🏐 Round 1 Done — Club Championship Review

The first weekend of the 2026 Mayo Club Championships is in the books.

This week, John Stagg and Enda join us to look back on all the action across the Senior, Intermediate and Junior Championships.

✅ The big results
⭐ Standout performances
👀 Teams that caught the eye
📈 What we learned from Round 1
🏆 And an early look at how each championship is shaping up
Plenty to get through after a cracking opening weekend of club football.
🎧 Listen now 👇
https://t.co/o6xe4G1Qax
#MayoGAA #ClubChampionship #AhRef

[Mayo GAA @MayoGAA]

🔴🟢 Everybody involved with Mayo GAA would like to wish Kobe McDonald all the best on his next adventure in Australia.

It has been some few months. Thanks Kobe 👆 #mayogaa #gaa

[Daniel Hvalsø Carlsen @brondbylister]

We were two Danes just passing by on our way to the airport in Dublin. And then Mayo won the All Ireland in Gaelic football. WTF. ❤️💚
#mayo #allirelandchampions