The Good Friday agreement was signed eighteen years ago but it's now clear that the war merely continued by other means.
The Orange Order has compiled a report called 'Fairness and Fear - An investigation of the treatment of protestants in the Civil Service'.
It claims that the Northern Ireland Civil Service is increasingly becoming a cold house for protestants. Micro-aggressions abound as sinister Catholics are creating an intolerable working environment for protestants.
Apparently, some culturally insensitive Taigs in the NI civil service have been busy oppressing their protestant workmates with incessant talk about GAA games of a Monday morning.
The respondents to the survey described Monday morning GAA chat as 'unfair'.
The report also contained complaints about Catholics deeming it acceptable to place mass cards on their desks. Talk of children's confirmations and the sight of people walking into work with ashes on their forehead were other sources of contention.
The Grand Secretary of the Orange Lodge, Drew Nelson spoke to the irrepressible Stephen Nolan on BBC Radio the other day.
The two words that came up again and again in our report were 'unfairness and fear' - we only stuck those words on the report at the end.
People feel they are treated unfairly and they are fearful and afraid to make a complaint.
Nelson did say there was nothing inherently offensive about a child's confirmation. The report seems to be less about Catholic nationalists flaunting their cultural background in the faces of their workmates than the perceived bar on protestants - or, at least, Orange Order members - from doing likewise.
The report seems to be less about Catholics nationalists flaunting their cultural background in the faces of their workmates than the perceived bar on protestants - or, at least, Orange Order members - from doing likewise.
Nelson suggested that the GAA and the Orange Order are, in some sense, equivalent organisations. And yet, the perception which arises from this report is that talk about the former is encouraged and allowed while talk about the latter is discouraged.
There is nothing offensive about a child's confirmation.
A cold house arises when the ethos of conversation is overwhelmingly emanating from one side of the community.
Our members are telling me that they would be afraid, they would be ostracised, possibly victimised if they went in on Monday morning and started talking about an Orange Order parade.
The Orange Order is considered a similar organisation here to the GAA and that's the difficulty here.
