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Britain steps in to stop contentious Protestant parade in Northern Ireland
The minister said police warned the march could pose an unacceptable risk of serious injury and disorder.
- On Friday, Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Bryant overturned a permit for an Orange Order parade on Garvaghy Road, citing police advice that the march posed "an unacceptable risk of serious injury, disorder and a wider contagion effect."
- Last month, the Parades Commission allowed the Orange Order to march the Garvaghy Road for the first time since the route's 1998 ban, reopening a long-standing dispute in the mainly Protestant town of Portadown.
- Thousands of residents blocked the parade during a two-week standoff, with police maintaining 1.5 kilometres separation between protesters and Orange Order members on the Garvaghy Road.
- A lawyer for Orange Order member Alan Hynes announced plans to challenge the decision in court Saturday, while Sinn Fein welcomed the outcome and the Democratic Unionist Party criticized it as "direct result of Republican agitation."
- Bryant called for all protests and rallies to be stood down, warning there was no excuse for continued escalation in a region still marked by tensions rooted in decades of conflict known as the "Troubles.
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The United Kingdom is canceling the controversial Orange March that has held Northern Ireland in its grip for nearly two weeks. The Minister for Northern Ireland announced in a statement that, after consultation between the two camps and much deliberation, the Protestant march through Catholic territory had no choice but to be called off.
·Apeldoorn, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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Britain steps in to stop contentious Protestant parade in Northern Ireland
Britain's Northern Ireland minister on Friday overturned a decision by local authorities that granted a permit for a Protestant parade to pass through a Catholic area and triggered a two-week standoff that raised tensions in the region.
·London, United Kingdom
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