The Garvaghy Road residents' spokesman has called on the Orange Order to accept that any negotiations may result in no parade ever going down the contested route.

Hard-line Protestants may try to wreck the Orange Order’s plans to avoid any trouble at the annual Drumcree marching dispute, it was claimed today.

A major security operation was being mounted at Drumcree Church in Co Armagh today to ensure no repeat of the violence of previous years when loyalists clashed with police.

The Orange Order and nationalist residents are close to brokering an historic deal over the North’s bitter Drumcree parade dispute, it emerged today.

Charging loyalist rioters at Drumcree with the scheduled offence of riotous assembly is the equivalent of using internment against Protestants, it was claimed today.

The police officer in charge of yesterday's security at the Drumcree Orange parade says the Order has a moral and legal duty to give him the names of its members involved in violence.

Senior police officers are today deciding how long to keep security barriers in place preventing the Portadown Orangemen from completing their traditional route back from Drumcree church.

Police have used baton charges and water cannon to quell Loyalist crowds who are still protesting at the police barricades in Drumcree.

Police have fired water cannon in an effort to quell the crowds of loyalist protestors who remain at the scene of the Drumcree parade in Portadown.

Trouble has broken out at Drumcree this afternoon after the controversial Orange Order parade disbanded.

Just under 1,000 people are believed to be taking part in today’s Drumcree march.

Portadown Orangemen today pledged to remain peaceful as they set off on Northern Ireland’s volatile loyalist parade.

As security forces continue to ready themselves in the area around Drumcree for the controversial march today, a leading member of the forces has described the peaceful marches to date as a great success.

Northern Ireland was holding its breath today hoping the controversial annual Drumcree parade by Portadown Orangemen passed off peacefully.

Portadown Orangemen were urged tonight to recognise their awesome responsibility to Northern Ireland to protest peacefully at Drumcree at the weekend.

The decision to bar the Orange Order from marching down the nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown is a denial of natural justice, it was claimed today.

The police officer in charge of dealing with this year’s Drumcree parade has said he is not expecting violent protests of the extent seen in previous years.

Portadown Orangemen have again been barred from marching down the nationalist Garvaghy Road during their annual Drumcree Parade.

Nationalist residents groups cast doubt today over their involvement in a conference on the Northern Ireland parades issue after two of their leading spokesmen received death threats from a renegade loyalist group.

The passing of the Drumcree parade without major incident is being welcomed

Orangemen have again been turned away from the blockades at Drumcree bridge.

The Orange Order service at Drumcree church has ended. The march will now continue to the barrier at the end of Garvaghy Road.

The Orangemen prayed before setting off on their march towards Drumcree Church for their annual Battle of the Somme commemoration service.

Orangemen have set off on their annual Drumcree Parade urging their supporters to maintain a peaceful protest against the ban on their march.

The Orange Order will set off from the Carlton Street Orange Hall later this morning to partake in their traditional annual Somme commemoration.