Hugh Annesley was worried. Speaking to an Irish diplomat in March 1996, the RUC chief constable predicted that the forthcoming marching season would be difficult, with no signs of compromise ...

Portadown Orangemen have again been stopped from completing the return leg of their parade from their annual Drumcree Parish Church service along the town’s mainly nationalist Garvaghy Road.

They also disclose detail of the initial decision of the police to ban the Drumcree parade, leading to violent conflict between Orangemen and the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), and the ultimate ...

Rite and Reason: Next Sunday will mark the 10th anniversary of the confrontation that brought Drumcree church to world attention… ...

A Church of Ireland and its graveyards sits atop a small hillock in the townland of Drumcree, just north of Portadown. Quiet, peaceful, rural, it seems hard to believe that it was the site of one ...

July 09, 2023 at 8:00pm BST. A quarter of a century since the shocking deaths of the Quinn children effectively brought the Drumcree parading dispute to an end, it is alarming that some wish to ...

The chairman of Northern Ireland's Parades Commission, Tony Holland has faced the ire of the Orange Order for banning the Portadown lodge from the contested route of the Drumcree march. Mr Holland ...

Drumcree looms again It was that issue – the IRA's commitment to peace – rather than what was in the actual agreement that was causing Blair to worry about the referendum vote. "My anxiety is ...

If that consent is withheld, there would be no resumption of the Drumcree protest. Over the years, there has been serious violence directed against the police and Army at Drumcree. The lodge's annual ...

They are moving in on Drumcree again this weekend: police and troops with riot shields, water cannon and all the familiar anti-riot paraphernalia. Stay up to date with notifications from The ...

He has accused the Parades Commission of being blatantly anti-Orange but insists that this has only stiffened his resolve. At the height of the dispute in 2000, he sparked controversy when he first ...