Garvaghy Road Standoff Brings Northern Ireland’s Old Wounds Back to Surface
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What the march through Garvaghy Road exposed is worrying: a mutually distrustful administration that must divide power between nationalists and unionists, but seizes every opportunity to trip up the other.
After a legal imbroglio, an Orange march was blocked on Sunday 27 September by nearly 2,000 Republican protesters on the Garvaghy road in Portadown, Northern Ireland.
The Garvaghy Road crisis is not only about the right to a parade: it reopens one of the symbolic wounds of the conflict between British Protestant Unionism and Irish nationalism, mainly Catholic, and tests the political balance built in Northern Ireland with the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
British & Irish Governments have a responsibility to stop this sectarian march being forced on the people of the Garvaghy Road– Mary Lou McDonald TD
“The British Secretary of State can stop this sectarian march being forced down that road. And that is what he must do." The post British & Irish Governments have a responsibility to stop this sectarian march being forced on the people of the Garvaghy Road– Mary Lou McDonald TD first appeared on Labour Outlook.
McDonald: British Government needs to take action on Garvaghy Road standoff
The Parades Commission in the North has serious questions to answer according to Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald. She was speaking to Tipp FM as a standoff continues on the Garvaghy Road in Portadown following the decision to allow members of the Orange Order march through the largely nationalist area. Crunch talks finished yesterday […] The post McDonald: British Government needs to take action on Garvaghy Road standoff appeared first on …
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