BELFAST City councillors have clashed with heated exchanges in the City Hall chamber over the Drumcree stand-off.
Just minutes into Thursday's night's October meeting of Belfast City Council and the issue was brought up under official announcements.
Sinn Féin group leader, Councillor Ciarán Beattie, said his party's solidarity was with the people of Garvaghy Road and their right to live without fear, intimidation and harassment.
SOLIDARITY: Sinn Féin group leader Councillor Ciarán Beattie
He also criticised comments by DUP group leader Councillor Sarah Bunting after she said the murder of the Quinn children in 1998 was "drug-related" and had nothing to do with the wider sectarian circumstance, describing the comments as "disgusting".
Sinn Féin councillor Ryan Murphy praised the support for the people of Garvaghy Road saying it is "not comparable" to the minimal support for Portadown District.
He also hit out at the TUV who he said have gone from "rent-a-crowd" to "invent-a-crowd" in response to TUV Councillor Ron McDowell who shared AI-generated images of a crowd at a loyalist rally in Portadown this week.
He said it was a "dangerous attempt" to try and mislead the public.
DUP Alderman Dean McCullough hit out at Sinn Féin, asking "are you genuinely afraid of 35 Orangemen, some of them pensioners, walking down a road on a Sunday morning at 8am?
LAWFUL: DUP Alderman Dean McCullough 
He said the peaceful and lawful actions of the District stood in stark contract to the "unlawful road-blockers" including every "rag-tag republican organisation that you could bus in".
DUP group leader Sarah Bunting said the actions of Sinn Féin was "not wanting a Prod about the place".
SDLP Councillor Séamas de Faoite described the week as a "sorry state of affairs".
"It can only be described as a sore sectarian scab that has been picked at," he added.
He then read out the names of all 21 people who lost their lives during the previous Drumcree crisis in the 1990s.
"They are 21 reasons why we should not have picked at the issue," he said.
Independent Councillor Paul Doherty said the message is clear: "The Orange Order are not getting down the Garvaghy Road, not now, not ever."
DEFIANT: Independent councillor Paul Doherty
Green Party Councillor Brian Smyth described the current situation as an "act of belligerence driven by the most extreme elements within elected and non-elected political unionism".
He described Drumcree as a "symptom of a broken system" of "institutions that were never designed to deliver real peace or reconciliation".
People Before Profit Councillor Michael Collins accused the DUP of "staring into the electoral abyss and are instead trying to beat the sectarian drum".
Alliance group leader Councillor Michael Long said people were in "despair" of re-opening the "Pandora's box of Drumcree."
UUP Alderman Sonia Copeland described the last week as "two opposing sets of rights" and the police "stuck in the middle". Ending the debate, DUP Councillor Jordan Doran accused Sinn Féin of failing to show respect for "our Orange heritage", adding that "moving forward does not mean we can leave our identity behind".
