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Drumcree Parade to Go Ahead Following Legal Challenge
- Northern Ireland's High Court ruled early Sunday that a Protestant Orange Order march may proceed through a Catholic area in Portadown, reversing a temporary ban on the highly charged route.
- Annual attempts by the Orange Order to march through this area triggered regional unrest before the route was banned in 1998, the year the Good Friday Agreement ended the three decades of violence known as the 'Troubles'.
- The Parades Commission stipulated Friday that a smaller-than-usual group of 35 people could march between 8 a.m. and 9:30 a.m., prohibiting any bands or supporters from participating.
- Crowds gathered on Garvaghy Road to protest the ruling, where Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle, vice president of Sinn Fein, and party leader Mary Lou McDonald appeared in social media videos.
- After the Court of Appeal vacated a temporary injunction granted Saturday to residents, the High Court dismissed a new application to stop the march, allowing the event to proceed.
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Heavy rain greeted groups who clustered on Garvaghy Road in Portadown ahead of the scheduled start of the parade on Sunday. Crowds braved heavy rain in Belfast on Sunday morning as they gathered at the scene of the contentions Drumcree parade. A ruling by the Parades Commission permitting the Orange Order to march on Garvaghy...
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