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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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[email protected] | Laura Pollock

What happens next? Judges hear new bid to block Drumcree march

The impasse at the former flashpoint in Portadown has exasperated divisions between the DUP and Sinn Féin. (Image: PA)

NORTHERN Ireland’s Parades Commission failed to “properly weigh” what police told it about the potential for disorder if the Drumcree march was given the go-ahead, Court of Appeal judges have been told.

A barrister for residents of the predominantly nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown told the court the commissioners had reached an “irrational conclusion” in permitting the Orange Order parade along the Troubles flashpoint for the first time in 28 years.

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