An Orange Order parade passed by a nationalist neighbourhood in north Belfast on Saturday morning without incident. Locals staged a protest against the parade, carrying banners saying 'rights marched over'. The parade travelled past the Ardoyne shops on Crumlin Road after being permitted by the Parades Commission, with several restrictions applied.
An Orange Order parade passed by a nationalist neighbourhood in north Belfast on Saturday morning without incident.
It began in the unionist Woodvale area and proceeded from the junction of Woodvale Parade and Woodvale Road along the Crumlin Road before ending at Ligoniel Orange Hall. The parade fell silent as it passed the Ardoyne shops, where the residents' protest was staged, before the music and drums resumed further along the route.
Mr Kelly said he was "very pleased" that the parade and protest were peaceful, adding: "I absolutely do not understand and still can't understand how the Parades Commission who made a decision on 13 July, that parades should not go up, and this is the same parade, the same lodge, the same band, at the same time, and then they said that it should go ahead, and people in the area don't understand that as well.
As part of the 2016 deal between the lodges and Cara, outward parades were able to proceed along the road passing the Ardoyne shops on the morning of July 12 each year, but without return parades to the Orange Hall in the evening. The area has previously witnessed serious loyalist and republican rioting when tensions linked to parading boiled over on the main date in the loyal order calendar, the Twelfth of July.
It saw the Orangemen complete the outstanding return leg of their 2013 parade on a morning in September 2016, after which the loyalist camp at the interface was dismantled and all associated protests ended. From that point on, the lodges agreed not to apply for any more return parades on the Twelfth until a wider agreement on the issue was reached.
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