Northern Ireland secretary says he will ban Drumcree parade
The ban follows a police warning that letting the march proceed would require a major intervention and risk serious disorder and unrest, officials said.
- 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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UK bans Protestant march in N Ireland in a Catholic area
Britain’s Northern Ireland secretary on Friday banned a contentious Protestant parade through a mostly Irish nationalist and Catholic district after a nearly two-week standoff.The Parades Commission, Northern Ireland’s independent body regulating contentious processions, had authorized 35 Orangemen
For two weeks Unionists and Republicans in Northern Ireland negotiated a march of the Protestant Oranier Order. Now it has been banned.
(London=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Ji-yeon = In Northern Ireland, UK, friction between British integrationist Protestant groups and Irish nationalist Catholic residents has continued for the second week...
For the first time in decades, Protestants wanted to move through a Catholic neighborhood in Portadown, where there were protests.
LONDON (AP) — The British government prevented the holding of a controversial march in Northern Ireland following a two-week clash between groups supporting the region’s continued unity with the United Kingdom and those supporting reunification...
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