Residents lose latest challenge to Parades Commission decision

Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition spokesman Breandan Mac Connaith speaking to the media outside the Court of Appeal in Belfast (Rebecca Black/PA) - (PA)

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.