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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Lisa O’Carroll Senior correspondent

Drumcree standoff continues after Orange Order says it will ‘not surrender’ to proposed deal

A man, Orange Order legal adviser Jamie Bryson, speaks into a microphone while raising a hand in the air.
Orange Order legal adviser Jamie Bryson addresses an event in Portadown on Wednesday. Photograph: Mark Marlow/PA

Talks to end the Drumcree parade dispute are on a knife-edge after Jamie Bryson, the legal adviser of the Orange Order, said it would “not surrender” to a deal proposed by the Northern Ireland secretary, Chris Bryant.

With echoes of the former Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley’s “no surrender” mantra of the 1980s, Bryson told supporters in Portadown that Bryant could keep his deal.

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