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Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition spokesman Breandán Mac Cionnaith has said "there is no real cause for celebration" after Secretary of State Chris Bryant banned the Orange Order parade from the road, describing the decision as a starting point rather than a victory. Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald said a "sense of menace" had been lifted from the community and that residents now needed time to rest and heal.
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Garvaghy Road spokesman Breandán Mac Cionnaith said the community "will not allow itself to be ignored" after a meeting with residents' groups from former flashpoints across Northern Ireland. He criticised the Parades Commission for disregarding a petition signed by 4,500 adults opposing any Orange Order march along the road.
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Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition's Linda O'Neill demanded the Parades Commission explain how it reversed nearly 1,500 parade bans over 28 years. She said the community had "no other choice" but to stand up, adding that the dispute was "no longer just about the Garvaghy Road."
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"We quite simply cannot lose." The loyalist activist Jamie Bryson addressed a crowd of around 200 on Tuesday night who gathered in a car park at the end of the Garvaghy Road. A “Drumcree Family Support event” had been put on hold over bad weather. Calling on the PSNI to enforce the court ruling allowing 35 members of the Orange Order to march down the nationalist Garvaghy Road for the first time in 28 years, Mr Bryson said failing to do so would have “unthinkable” consequences for the law. 🎥 Dylan Hegarty
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“Sectarianism, fascism, racism are the same mindset that treat other people lesser than themselves.” Residents' spokesperson Breandán Mac Cionnaith has been speaking at Saturday's Garvaghy Road solidarity rally in Portadown. Thousands attended the event, with other speakers including first minister Michelle O'Neill.
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"We thought these days were long past us...we are here to stand with the residents of the Garvaghy Road." West Belfast rap trio Kneecap arrived on the Garvaghy Road on Sunday and were given a fanatical reception. The group were welcomed by a crowd of thousands who had made their way to the site of the ongoing stand-off, which has now seen residents and supporters camped out for more than a week. 🎥 Mal McCann
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“I want to say to all of those abusing that you certainly won’t deter me from doing what I do and from standing up for Portadown Orange District LOL Number One who deserve the right to fulfil their legal right determination to walk the Garvaghy Road.” DUP MP Carla Lockhart and Jamie Bryson speak to reporters outside the Appeal Court in Belfast. Appeal judges have said they are reserving judgment after nationalist residents challenged a High Court decision to refuse a legal challenge after the Orange Order was given permission to walk through the nationalist district of Portadown. 🎥 Rohit Balaji
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TUV deputy leader Ron McDowell has posted an image from a rally in support of the Drumcree Orangemen that appears to have been altered using AI. The image, posted on social media, appears to exaggerate the size of the crowd at the protest in Portadown. Around 200 people gathered in a car park at the end of the Garvaghy Road on Tuesday night in support of the Orange Order amid the fallout from the Drumcree dispute.
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"We cannot go backwards." Linzi McLaren was one of the speakers at Saturday's solidarity rally in support of the residents of the Garvaghy Road. The SDLP election candidate was one of around 1,300 people from the Protestant community who signed a letter this week calling on the Orange Order to abandon its planned parade plan. She appealed to the Orange Order to "look towards the bigger picture" and bring the impasse to an end. 🎥 Brian Lincoln
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"How would Carla Lockhart know what's acceptable and what's not acceptable?" Garvaghy Road residents' spokesperson Breandán Mac Cionnaith responds to DUP MP Carla Lockhart's comments that a proposal to resolve the Drumcree stand-off is not acceptable to the Orange Order. 🎥 Dylan Hegarty
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“Neither God nor the Pope of Rome could have gotten me to protest outside a girls’ primary school. “We saw many things throughout the conflict, but that has always stayed with me… To be frank, I was horrified.” It has been 25 years since the loyalist blockade of Holy Cross, the all-girls primary school in 2001, in which crowds vociferously and violently objected to parents from nationalist Ardoyne escorting their children to school. Gerry Kelly opens up about the dark chapter in Northern Ireland’s troubled past, praising the young girls and their families for their bravery and hopes that such scenes “will never be repeated.” 🎥 Dylan Hegarty
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Loyalist activist Jamie Bryson has said he received more than 1,500 abusive calls and voicemails, including threats against him and his family after his personal details were published online, with two people arrested over the alleged threats and DUP MP Carla Lockhart. He appealed to the unionist and loyalist community not to take to the streets this weekend, saying the Drumcree dispute should be settled in the courts.
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Ulster Unionist Party leader Jon Burrows has said he doubts Michelle O'Neill will accept his challenge to debate the union, adding that her response tells its own story. He said he was rejecting "united Ireland nonsense" with hard facts and wanted his party to once again lead unionism.
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