TRNSMT shows us Orange walk was a

An estimated 120,000 music lovers have this weekend made the peaceful pilgrimage to Glasgow Green for the city’s TRNSMT music festival.

Now in its third year, TRNSMT has become the biggest summer live music festival in Scotland.

Roads have been closed and traffic and parking restrictions have been in place. And, yes, despite all the precautions, warnings and valiant efforts of the organisers, security and police, there will be most likely, especially given the huge numbers attending, a few minor arrests and some punters requiring medical attention.

Hopefully there will be no repeat of the tragedies which blighted and brought about the demise of T in The Park, once Scotland’s longestrunning music festival.

You would expect the whole event to pass peacefully. Free of trouble.

Three great days and nights of summer and song. As well as headliners such as Stormzy, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Gerry Cinnamon, Emeli Sandé and Lewis Capaldi, music fans could check out, across four stages, up-and-coming artists such as Tom Grennan, The Hunna, The Snuts and Stephanie Cheape.

Now put that in stark contrast to what happened last Saturday in the same city. Fewer than 8,000 Orange Order members marched, to the accompaniment of drum and flute, and songs, along 32 shut roads to Glasgow Green in their archaic annual procession infamously known as the Boyne Parade in celebration of the Battle of Boyne in 1690.

Peaceful and friendly, this most definitely was not.

Only eight arrests, for minor offences – two for sectarianism – were made on the day but that figure doesn’t count for anything, or mean

that it was a peaceful and joyous occasion. No way!

This is despite all the assurances given by the Loyal Orders, a year on since Canon Tom White was spat on, that there would be no similar attacks, and that marching bands would fall silent within 100 metres of any Catholic Churches.

Some bands blatantly ignored these conditions and carried on playing, ignoring the police requests