Sir, - If mediation fails, and the British Army advises that it cannot or will not uphold the ruled of law, then there is one non threatening solution.
Agreed disturbance compensation should be made to Catholic families directly in the line of the parade. This would obviate the need for batoning citizens, or penning them into their homes with landrovers. It would also allow Orangemen the unusual thought that their tunes were contributing financially to their Catholic neighbours. They might even, in the true spirit of Orangeism, seek to re-route themselves. - Yours, etc.,
Shankill,
Co Dublin.