Northern Ireland: Contentious March Stalls as Protesters Block Garvaghy Road
The parade was limited to 35 marchers and an 8 a.m. start after judges upheld the route, while thousands of protesters blocked the road.
- 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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Reformatorisch Dagblad
destentor.nlThe hundreds of protesters who stopped a controversial pro-British march in Portadown, Northern Ireland, on Sunday have left the street they blocked. However, according to the BBC, a group of residents reports that they will continue to keep watch on Garvaghy Road.
Sydney Morning Herald
‘Madness’: Stand-off in Northern Ireland town as protesters block first Orangemen march in decades
The attempt to hold the Protestant parade through a Catholic section of Portadown followed the lifting of an almost 30-year ban on the contentious route.
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British Prime Minister Andy Burnham calls for calm after the High Court in Belfast cleared a contentious Orange Order parade, while Sinn Féin leaders join protesters blocking the Garvaghy Road route in Portadown. Next News Network could not independently verify the parade's outcome.
N Ireland parade standoff lasts into the night
UK leaders called for calm on Sunday as a tense standoff with residents seeking to halt a pro-British Protestant march through a Catholic flashpoint area stretched into the night, in one of the worst crises for Northern Ireland in recent years. The tensions were triggered after a Belfast appeal court overturned a High Court injunction in the early hours of Sunday to clear the march by the Orange Order to go ahead for the first time since 1997. T…
Northern Ireland has returned the Protestant march, which has been banned since 1998
Northern Ireland has returned the Protestant march, which has been banned since 1998.Hundreds of residents of the Catholic Garvaghy Road area took to the road in the pouring rain, blocking the morning march. The Parade Commission has...
The Protestant Oranier Order should march in a Catholic part of Portadown in Northern Ireland. But opponents block the controversial march. Is there a political crisis?The confrontation between members of the Protestant Oranier Order and local demonstrators in a predominantly Catholic part of the northern Irish city of Portadown continues.The controversial parade, which had been allowed by the authorities for the first time since the 1990s, rema…
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