Police feared that dissident republicans would attack officers with guns if they had facilitated the Drumcree parade passing along the Garvaghy Road in Portadown, Co Armagh, the High Court in Belfast has heard.
During a legal challenge to a decision by the Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Chris Bryant to ban the parade, the court also also heard reference to comments from a police document which referred to “feelings of PIRA” (Provisional IRA).
