"We need our very best young people to join the police – and serve the community with generosity, concern, respect and courage,” says Archbishop Eamon Martin.

Police Scotland said that if the march was not rerouted, officers from across the country would need to be drafted into Glasgow.

“No march that ends with such scenes should be allowed on that route in future.” – Mike Russell, Scottish National Party

The young people develop real friendships with each other, and face and overcome some big challenges together.

“Traditionalists have every right to hold reactionary opinions; they have no right to impose them on others in the name of a false conception of orthodoxy.”

Archbishop Martin calls for greater inclusiveness of the disadvantaged in the Irish educational system at a graduation Mass for St Patrick's College.

Crosses, statues, pews and windows smashed in “act of pointless destruction”.

Incident condemned as “despicable and completely sectarian.”