A senior member of the Orange Order has appealed to the Government for permission to parade in Dublin.

TODAY may be July 12 but the only Orange march in the Republic has already taken place — and the organisation aims to open lodges as far south as Bandon in west Cork.

ARMAGH goalkeeper Paul Hearty has blamed RTÉ for Saturday’s Ulster SFC quarter-final against Down at the Athletic Grounds clashing with the Champions League final.

Police chiefs in the North today called for a long-term solution to the annual parading disputes after another Twelfth of July was marked by serious rioting.

Police and Orangemen came under attack tonight as a controversial Twelfth of July parade was escorted through a notorious flashpoint in Belfast.

More than 40 Orange Lodges took part in the annual 12th of July parade in County Donegal today.

In the North, the Parades Commission has said no more than one thousand people may take part in an Orange Order march at Drumcree this evening.

A senior Democratic Unionist tonight rejected claims by Gerry Adams that his party did nothing to help deliver peaceful Twelfth of July Orange Order marches.

Loyalists and nationalists in Belfast were today breathing a sigh of relief after a contentious Protestant Orange Order march passed peacefully in the west of the city.

Both sides in the argument over whether or not the Orange Order should be allowed to march through the main west Belfast peaceline later today are appealing for calm ahead of the march.

The first contentious Orange Order march of the year is due to take place in north Belfast later today.

Calm has been restored to the streets of the country's capital this morning, as authorities and political leaders turn to analyse yesterday's violence.

A court in the North is to review the case of three loyalists who were given suspended sentences for threatening a police officer with a deactivated gun.

DETECTIVES yesterday released CCTV stills of men they wish to question in connection with the July 12 riots in north Belfast.

I DOUBT that when he started out on a career in accountancy, Neil Hughes ever imagined that the day would come when he would find himself being hailed as some kind of saviour by a crowd of football supporters.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern last night appealed for calm in the North and said community and political leaders had a crucial role in ensuring tensions over marches don’t spill over into violence.

More than 40 police officers were injured tonight as rioting erupted in north Belfast after a contentious Orange parade passed through a Catholic area.

Police in riot gear moved in to clear a sit-down Republican protest in North Belfast today as thousands of Orangemen took to the streets for the Battle of the Boyne commemoration parade.

Police were attacked and property damaged near loyalist bonfires in Belfast ahead of Orange Order parades across Northern Ireland later today.

Police are to investigate reported breaches by nationalist protestors of a Parade Commission ruling during a march in Belfast last night.

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.

The annual Orange march to Drumcree church in Portadown, Co. Armagh, takes place later today. It will be re-routed away from the nationalist Garvaghy Road for the sixth year running.

IT was the summer of 1994 and the Irish Universities were touring South Africa, one of the first parties to do so after Nelson Mandela was elected president.

The nationalist Garvaghy Road Residents' Coalition has denied reports it is involved in high level talks to pave the way for an Orange march through the area this year.

Police in the North have praised republican stewards for preventing serious violence at an Orange march in Ardoyne.

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.

The first seriously contentious parade of this year’s loyalist marching season takes place later today in north Belfast.

The man chosen to head a review into the Parades Commission insisted today it would not be restricted by political constraints.

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

The Parades Commission in North has ruled that the twelfth Orange March in Derry will not be allowed pas the river Foyle and into the centre of the city.

Sinn Fein has dismissed last night's UDA pledge not to become involved in violence at this Sunday's Drumcree parade as a 'pantomime'.

The Parades Commission is due to announce later today whether it will reverse its ban on this Sunday's re-routed Orange march at Drumcree.

Garvaghy Road Residents spokesman Breandan Mac Cionnaith claimed the Parades Commission had no other option but to ban Sunday’s Orange march.

The parades commission will announce its ruling in relation to the annual Orange march from Drumcree Church in Portadown later today.

The RUC has condemned the people behind the planting of what is believed

Breandan Mac Cionnaith, the Garvaghy Residents' spokesman, has been told today his name is on a loyalist death list.