Bonfires and hatred

The courage to speak up

Sir, – Carl Frampton’s courageous and principled interview with Jonathan Drennan in Saturday’s News Review, in which he denounced the poisonous sectarianism that is sometimes displayed at public events and espoused the cause of integrated education, is an example to us all (“‘I’m not against bonfires. I am against hatred’”, July 16th).

Too many of us have been silent on these issues. How many headteachers or members of school boards have been brave enough to consider seriously the possibility of advancing the cause of integrated education in Northern Ireland? – Yours, etc,

DAVID GRIFFIN,

Banbridge,

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Co Down.