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04 July 2012

Belfast’s Irish language radio station Raidió Fáilte has broken even more traditional boundaries by hosting a bilingual discussion on the Ulster Covenant involving the Grand Secretary of the Orange Lodge of Ireland, Drew Nelson along with Historian Éamon Phoenix, Eoin Dawson of the Socialist Party and local historian Pilib Ó Rúnaí.

The discussion will be broadcast as part of a seven program series entitled ‘Samhlaigh Sin’, ‘Imagine That’ which will go out on Raidió Fáilte between the 16^th and the 22^nd July at 10:00 each evening on 107.1fm in Belfast and world-wide on www.raidiofailte.com. The programmes which are presented by Máirín Hurndall have been produced with the support of the Community Relations Council.         

Photo l-r Eoin Dawson, Socialist Party, Pilib Ó Rúnaí, local historian, Éamon Phoenix  Historian and Writer, Máirín Hurndall of Raidió Fáilte and Drew Nelson, the Grand Secretary of the Orange lodge of Ireland, after a lively bilingual discussion on the Ulster Covenant in the local studio of the local Irish language radio station Raidió Fáilte 107.1fm