THE standoff at Drumcree continued on Monday as protesters lined the Garvaghy Road and police prevented Orange Order members from departing Drumcree Church.
THE final weekend of the Senior and Intermediate saw chaos and drama unfold as the finals in both tiers of the Antrim LGFA took place with an all-Belfast derby between two West Belfast rivals in Gort na Mona and St John's with the Mona-Bypass side hoping to rewrite the wrongs of last season.
Irish American politicians and organisations have been speaking out this weekend to prevent an Orange parade through the Catholic Garvaghy Road area of Portadown, Co Armagh.
THE Bishop of Down and Connor has paid tribute to the men and women who built St Michael the Archangel Parish in Andersonstown during the “darkest days” of the Troubles.
THE First Minister Michelle O'Neill has called on the Irish and British governments to intervene over attempts by the Orange Order to march down the Garvaghy Road.
GARVAGHY Road residents and their legal team have arrived at the High Court in Belfast this morning for the start of their legal challenge against Friday's Parades Commission decision to permit an Orange Order march though the Nationalist district of Portadown on Sunday morning.
GARVAGHY Road residents and their supporters will be back at the High Court in Belfast on Saturday morning when a legal challenge will be heard against today’s Parades Commission decision to permit an Orange Order march though the Nationalist district of Portadown on Sunday morning.
I’M not easily shocked. How could I be? I’ve been at this job for all these decades and I’m still here. If I was easily shocked I’d be in a secure facility or shearing sheep in Donegal.
