Residents in Portadown’s Garvaghy Road plan to meet Northern Secretary and senior police as tensions continue around the Drumcree dispute. Protesters had gathered and, at one point, blockaded the road where the Orange Order planned to march from Drumcree Church to the Carleton Street Orange Hall.
Across coverage, the standoff is framed as part of the wider ongoing disagreement over how and where the march proceeds through a mainly nationalist area. Highland Radio reports that protesters largely disperse after being told a “fresh” process would be used to address the issue. It also says Sinn Féin First Minister Michelle O’Neill joins thousands of demonstrators in Portadown. The Irish Independent similarly describes the road block during the planned Orange Order march but focuses less on the dispersal details and more on the decision to arrange talks involving the Northern Secretary and the police chief.
