Dawson Bailie's presence has become a fixture amid the ongoing controversy surrounding Orange Order marches in Belfast.
The Belfast County Grand Master has often led the Orange charge in successive wars of words over disputed parades.
His robust style has garnered many headlines and sparked heated debate in the past.
While his targets have been diverse his delivery remains uniformly impassioned.
In 2003 he accused senior police officers retained under the Patten reforms of "losing the reason why they joined the RUC".
He said following the change from the RUC to the PSNI that the force had lost the confidence of the loyalist people.
"They are all career officers who don't have the same interest of Ulster at heart as the old officers who were lost through Patten."
The Whiterock parade in particular has led to some strong comments, including in 2001 his refusal to meet residents because, in Mr Bailie's words, the order believed they were "linked to Sinn Féin/IRA".
He warned then that his members would not take restrictions on their traditional march "lying down".
Last year he took the unusual step of appealing directly to loyalist paramilitaries to help ensure a peaceful summer.
"At this time of rising tensions within our communities and as we approach the summer season when many of our traditional parades take place, I appeal to all community, political and paramilitary leaders and their respective organisations to do all in their power to ensure a peaceful outcome to our parades and celebration of our culture and heritage," he said.
Earlier this summer, however, Mr Bailie's reaction to Parades Commission restrictions was more succinct. He branded it simply "unacceptable".
Mr Bailie, who lives in the quaint Co Down seaside village of Donaghadee, is a retired fitter in his sixties.
