Protesters block Catholic area in Northern Ireland ahead of Orange Order march
The march was limited to 35 participants and no bands after judges weighed residents’ objections and the risk of renewed disorder.
- Northern Ireland’s Parades Commission has approved an Orange Order march through Garvaghy Road in Portadown, a mainly Catholic area, for the first time since the route was banned in 1998.
- The march is part of the annual Drumcree parade and has long been one of Northern Ireland’s most contentious Protestant processions.
- The commission approved a reduced procession of 35 people for Sunday morning and imposed conditions on its size, timing and music.
- The Garvaghy Road dispute became a major flashpoint during the Troubles, with repeated unrest surrounding attempts to hold the march through the area.
- Residents have opposed the decision and launched a legal challenge, with the High Court expected to consider the case before the planned march.
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It is high tension in Portadown, Northern Ireland, where a large crowd of protesters gathered along the Garvaghy Road to protest against the march of the Orange Order, a Unionist Protestant organization back to parade after 28 years. Some protest participants hold hands forming a chain, while the people standing at the [...] The Northern Ireland article, back the tension: protests against the unionist march. Prime Minister Burnham:
After 28 years she had been allowed to go through a road with strong Catholic and Republican presence, but hundreds of protesters went across
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PORTADOWN (ANP/AFP) - Thousands of people have gathered in the Northern Irish town of Portadown to stop a pro-British Protestant march. A judge had ruled that the controversial Orange Order march could pass through the Catholic neighborhood around Garvaghy Road on Sunday morning for the first time in 28 years...
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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Andy Burnham called for calm in Northern Ireland on Sunday after a contentious parade was given the go-ahead by the High Court in Belfast in a late-night sitting. Thousands of protesters, many wearing balaclavas, gathered to block the marchers from the Orange Order, a group hugely supportive of Northern...
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