Two orange lodges in Ards and North Down Borough have failed in their applications for public funding for July twelfth events despite the local council controversially bending its policy to allow lodges inclusion in the process.
Lodges in Bangor and Comber both failed to reach the scoring required to get public funding for July events, despite the local authority going against its own guidelines to accommodate them.
In May, Unionist elected representatives in Ards and North Down Council pushed through a decision to allow Comber District Loyal Orange Lodge and Bangor District Loyal Orange Lodge to apply for up to £20,000 each from the Ards and North Down Events and Festivals Fund.
