19/01/2006

Orangemen refused access to Garvaghy Road

The Northern Ireland Parades Commission has banned Drumcree Orangemen from marching down the Nationalist Garvaghy Road next week.

The ruling on the January 29 pararde was the first major decision to be made by the parade's body, since the appointment of two Orangemen to the Commission in November last year.

The Portadown District Lodge had requested permission to walk through the mainly Nationalist area on Sunday 29 January, a route they have been banned from walking since 1997 due to violent clashes and objections from residents.

Parades Commission Chairman Roger Poole today said that the parade along the Garvaghy Road might unsettle the current peaceful situation in the area.

He also added that the Commission had voted unanimously in favour of banning the contentious parade.

(EF/SP)

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