Jamie Bryson: Northern Irish unionists 'must go on the offensive'
Inside Politics with Hugh Linehan

Jamie Bryson: Northern Irish unionists 'must go on the offensive'

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 21, 202648 min
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  • Politics

The scenes at Drumcree in recent weeks revived memories of one of Northern Ireland’s most enduring disputes between unionist and nationalist communities. But while the immediate controversy centred on a short stretch of road in Portadown, loyalist activist Jamie Bryson, who has spearheaded the campaign to secure a return of Orange Order members to the largely nationalist Garvaghy Road, believes the implications reach much further than a single parade. On today’s podcast, Bryson tells Hugh that the unionist tradition has been “under siege” for decades and argues that it is time to “go o...

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You're listening to The Irish Times. It's Wednesday, October the 21st and you're very welcome to the Inside Politics podcast from The Irish Times. I'm Hugh Linehan.

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Jamie Bryson is not an elected politician and he's not a member of a political party. Despite that, he is regarded as one of the most influential voices in that part of unionism that has never reconciled itself to the Belfast Agreement and the political settlement that followed it.

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Bryson first came to prominence in the street protests over the flying of the Union flag over Belfast City Hall in 2013 and he went on to become a central figure in protests over the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework and he has also been at the centre of the recent flare-up of controversy over whether an Orange March should be permitted

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