Membership
Members can only be initiated within the city walls. The wearing of crimson collarettes by members recalls the crimson flag flown from the cathedral during the siege. Membership of the Association is open to anyone who professes Christ through the reformed Protestant faith. Membership is limited to men only.
In 2008 Sinn Fein councillor Billy Leonard claimed that convicted loyalist murderer and a member of the Ulster Freedom Fighters unit which carried out the Greysteel massacre, Torrens Knight was a member of the Kilrea branch of the Apprentice Boys and had laid a wreath at the village Cenotaph.This was denied by a spokesman for the group and by Knight himself.The organisation demanded an explanation and an apology from Sinn Fein for making the claims.
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“The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)