Brown Square residents object to the parade.

The residents of Brown Square protested today as the parade passed. There wasn't many of them, but it did look strange that the protest at parades issue was on the  other foot.

There weren't many protesters there, around two dozen, and they did not come anywhere near the marchers, there was enough police about to ensure the two sides did not come into immediate contact with each other, and although the atmosphere was tense the march passed the disputed part of the route without any major  incidents at all.

The puzzles of Paisley.

There is to be a talk and film tomorrow night at eight in the Spectrum Centre on the Shankill Road in west Belfast, as part of Queens film festival. Tickets are around £4 pay on line or at the door.  I know that one lecturer at Queens is thinking of doing a profile of Paisley in the autumn, and Ed Moloney wrote an excellent book chronicling the twists and turns of his life. 

 

A few people I know also went along to a lunch with him at Queens, I think it was Will Crawley who hosted it and I heard some brilliant reports about it.

 

Theres no doubt he'll go down in our history books, this will definitely be a worthwhile event for anyone to go to.