Reader agrees with drinking complaint

SIR, Reference your letter last week in the Times about drinking while a band parade was taking place in Ballymoney, I have to say I agree with the writer.

During the Dunloy band parade which, incidentally, was one of the best in the country as well as the best organised, I witnessed many people drinking in a public place.

I saw this at quite a few places and I have to stress this was not the fault of Dunloy organisers. It seems to be a culture that has grown in the town for some years at band parades.

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My experience in this particular parade was seeing two girls drinking at the Rodden Foot roundabout and going unchallenged. Maybe this was a non-designated area, I don’t know, but I tried to get along a certain street in my car and was refused. When I drew comparisons between the two incidents I was quite cross.

Drinking in the street lowers the tone of a town and Ballymoney certainly has plenty of that during parades.

Yours etc.,

‘Disgusted Loyalist’

(name and address supplied).

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