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Northern Ireland live: ‘Orange Order can wait for weeks,’ claims DUP leader as controversial march delayed amid huge protest
DUP’s Gavin Robinson says loyalists have ‘steadfast determination’ to march on Catholic enclave in Portadown Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill, at the scene of the counter-protest this morning also spoke alongside Mary Lou McDonald. O’Neill said she had called on Northern Ireland secretary Chris Bryant to intervene. She told reporters: “Does anybody think that this is a good idea? No right-minded person would make this decision. “I still do not know the answer to this question - why, after 28 years of determination to block a march down this road, the Parades Commission thought that this was the right idea today to bring this mess back onto this community?” Local MP Carla Lockhart, from the pro-British Democratic Unionist Party, posted this morning on X describing the marchers as a “dignified grouping of men, walking silently down Garvaghy Road”. She included a photo of th
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DUP’s Gavin Robinson says loyalists have ‘steadfast determination’ to march on Catholic enclave in Portadown Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill, at the scene of the counter-protest this morning also spoke alongside Mary Lou McDonald. O’Neill said she had called on Northern Ireland secretary Chris Bryant to intervene. She told reporters: “Does anybody think that this is a good idea? No right-minded person would make this decision. “I still do not know the answer to this question - why, after 28 years of determination to block a march down this road, the Parades Commission thought that this was the right idea today to bring this mess back onto this community?” Local MP Carla Lockhart, from the pro-British Democratic Unionist Party, posted this morning on X describing the marchers as a “dignified grouping of men, walking silently down Garvaghy Road”. She included a photo of th
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Northern Ireland live: ‘Orange Order can wait for weeks,’ claims DUP leader as controversial march delayed amid huge protest, DUP’s Gavin Robinson says loyalists have ‘steadfast determination’ to march on Catholic enclave in Portadown Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill, at the scene of the counter-protest this morning also spoke alongside Mary Lou McDonald. O’Neill said she had called on Northern Ireland secretary Chris Bryant to intervene. She told reporters: “Does anybody think that this is a good idea? No right-minded person would make this decision. “I still do not know the answer to this question - why, after 28 years of determination to block a march down this road, the Parades Commission thought that this was the right idea today to bring this mess back onto this community?” Local MP Carla Lockhart, from the pro-British Democratic Unionist Party, posted this morning on X describing the marchers as a “dignified grouping of men, walking silently down Garvaghy Road”. She included a photo of th
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