One of the North's most controversial parades has passed off peacefully.

Orangemen and nationalist residents who struck a breakthrough deal to resolve Northern Ireland's most volatile parading dispute have said they are committed to working in a spirit of genuine respect toward a common, peaceful and shared future.

Orange Order leaders have expressed both relief and disappointment at the decision of President Michael D Higgins not to attend the Republic’s only Orange march, in Donegal, next week.

The US diplomat tasked with finding a resolution to parading controversies in Northern Ireland has insisted that politics is the only way.

A controversial Orange Order parade on a disputed stretch of road separating loyalists and nationalists in north Belfast has passed off without major incident.

Events of recent days have shown that we have a distance to go before mastering the art of conflict resolution. That does not mean that anyone south of the border who remembers the horrors ignited by sectarianism, appalling bigotry and unfettered hatred will look north today without feeling bewildered and concerned.

For the first time ever, the Orange Order will not be permitted to parade through the Ardoyne area of north Belfast on July 12.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has today called for a meeting with the Orange Order following violence at a Belfast flashpoint where contentious parades were held.

The chairman of the Northern Ireland Parades Commission today defended the decision to allow two rival parades to go ahead within two hours of each other in North Belfast which ended with serious public disorder and dissident republican gunmen opening fire on police.

Around 15 Orange Order members have paraded without incident through a sectarian flashpoint in North Belfast.

Scuffles broke out as a contentious parade passed through North Belfast today.

Hundreds of anti-riot police will be on duty today amid fears of street disorder in north Belfast after a big Orange Order demonstration in the city.

Two senior Ulster Unionist politicians will not face Orange Order punishment for attending the funeral of a Catholic policeman murdered by dissident republicans.

An Orange hall destroyed in an overnight fire was targeted by arsonists who may have used diversionary tactics to keep the emergency services from the area, Orangemen have claimed.

The leaders of the Orange Order will meet in the North tomorrow to select a new figurehead, with senior official Edward Stevenson tipped to take over.

Orangemen will be urged by their leaders today to back key parading proposals linked to the landmark deal to devolve law and order powers to the North.

THE column by Steven King headlined “Republicans’ original mandate can be consigned to dustbin of history” (December 3) left me perplexed, to say the least.

Police in the North were forced to use CS spray when trouble broke out following an Orange parade in Co Antrim last night.

The Orange Order leadership will not meet Sinn Féin until republicans express regret for their part in the Troubles, the organisation said today.

The body which adjudicates on contentious parades in the North is today looking for a new member after the Law Lords declared the appointment by Peter Hain of one of its members was unlawful.

An inquiry into the death of a Catholic man battered to death by a loyalist mob in Northern Ireland was today delayed after police witnesses were given the go-ahead to seek anonymity.

Northern Ireland Parades Commission chief Roger Poole and its Protestant members today faced calls for them to stand down after Orangemen were banned from marching in a nationalist area.

In the North, Portadown Orangemen have been banned from walking along the Garvahy Road for the second year running.

The British government is under fire today after announcing it will give the Orange Order more than £100,000 (€144,000) to help it try to popularise the annual July 12 parade in Belfast.

The Orange Order faced new demands today to end its boycott on dealing with the Northern Parades Commission.

FOR the second time in a month, our establishment has found itself mouthing absurdities because of its adherence to trendy multiculturalism.

IRELAND cannot much longer afford the routine denigration of the Green and the Orange. Do we really want to humiliate Orangemen (or Sinn Féin for that matter) by insisting that their leaders condemn themselves and their supporters in front of the world?

There was fresh trouble in Belfast tonight as police pledged to get tough with loyalist demonstrators who have caused major disruption for days.

Fresh trouble broke out in Belfast today after police launched a series of raids in the loyalist north of the city.

Police launched a series of raids in loyalist north Belfast today as they hunted those behind the street violence of recent days.

The SDLP has condemned an attempt by the Orange Order to get permission to parade down the nationalist Garvaghy Road on Christmas Day.

Loyalist gangs have engaged in a third consecutive night of rioting throughout Belfast and surrounding areas following the re-routing of a contentious Orange Order parade.

Northern Secretary Peter Hain has defended PSNI chief constable Hugh Orde's criticism of the Orange Order in the wake of this weekend's loyalist riots in Belfast.

Loyalist gunmen opened fire on police and soldiers for a second night running amid ferocious new rioting on the streets of the North.

THIRTY two police officers were injured after loyalist terrorists unleashed one of the "most dangerous riots" across Belfast and beyond, Chief Constable Hugh Orde revealed last night.

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams yesterday refused to speculate when the IRA will come forward with its anticipated statement on the future of the organisation.

Nearly 90 people were injured in serious rioting in north Belfast after a contentious Orange Parade, police said today.

A JOURNALIST and a policeman were injured last night as rioting erupted in North Belfast.

Riot police moved into a village today as a new stand-off developed between Orangemen and nationalist protesters in Northern Ireland.

PORTADOWN Orangemen have been urged to hold talks with the nationalist residents of the Garvaghy Road in a bid to end the long-running Drumcree parade dispute.

The Orange Order has voted to sever its links with the Ulster Unionist Party.

A body representing Orangemen, unionist politicians and loyalist paramilitaries in Belfast has pledged to enter talks with nationalist residents about future parades in the North.

SDLP LEADER Mark Durkan yesterday backed away from claims that his party would consider its position on policing if a Parades Commission ruling on a controversial Orange march in north Belfast was defied.

A Belfast police chief who headed the security operation surrounding a bitterly-contested Orange march that ended in violence today hit back in the face of rising Nationalist fury.

SDLP leader Mark Durkan today backed away from claims that his party would consider its position on policing if a Parades Commission ruling on a controversial Orange march in north Belfast was defied.

Thousands of members of the Orange Order are parading today as the North's marching season reaches its peak.

Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy today called for Orange Order parades tomorrow to be “peaceful and dignified“.

HOPES of another quiet marching season in Northern Ireland this summer were raised after the annual parade to Drumcree passed off peacefully yesterday.

Belfast was plunged into traffic chaos today as nationalists blocked off main roads in protest at a flashpoint loyalist parade.

A group of Orangemen, unionist councillors and loyalist community workers has requested talks with nationalist residents in Belfast in an effort to reverse restrictions on an Orange Order parade this weekend.