Drumcree residents lose latest court battle as judges reject Garvaghy Road challenge

A crowd of protesters hold a demonstration outside the Northern Ireland Office in Belfast (Image: David Young)

RESIDENTS opposed to a contentious Orange Order parade route in Portadown have lost their latest bid to challenge the decision to allow it.

Residents of the predominantly nationalist Garvaghy Road in the Co Armagh town applied for a judicial review of the decision by the Parades Commission to allow the parade along the road for the first time in almost 30 years.