This cataclysmic happening occurred during a television interview with Portadown Orange chief Darryl Hewitt.

The District Master believed that the Orange talks with Gerry Adams were along the same lines as the sitting down together in Stormont of unionist and republican politicians.

Mr Hewitt has obviously missed the point.

The politicians of whom he is speaking, primarily the DUP, choreographed a complete scenario culminating in our people being systematically sold into the hands of their traditional enemies, through a programme of betrayal, lies, deceit and subterfuge.

Surely the District Master doesn't expect the loyal brethren of Portadown to tread this path?

Many people discern the Orange Order to be the custodian of the Protestant way of life and to defend the proclamation of the evangelical Protestant religion — both of which Mr Adams fervently hates!

Decent people throughout Ulster wish to see the annual Battle of the Somme parade restored as soon as possible.

But far, far better that it never takes place than thanks to the arch republican Gerry Adams.

J Murdock

Portadown