Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams held talks with leading loyalists today aimed at defusing tensions over controversial parades.

Members of Protestant marching organisations in the North welcomed the promise of a new system for overseeing parades in today’s deal, but Catholic residents’ groups expressed concerns over any changes.

Derry breathed a sign of relief tonight after an annual loyalist Apprentice Boys parade passed off without trouble.

Former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown is to head a review of parading in the North, it was announced today.

Petrol bombers have attacked police during new trouble in Derry, it emerged today.

A number of people have been arrested after violence erupted following a parade by loyalists in the North.

Around 50 petrol bombs were thrown at police in the North this morning ahead of today’s parade by British loyalists.

The North'sloyalist marching season got off to a peaceful start today.

Three men have been charged over disorder that broke out at a loyalist parade in the North, police said today.

Today’s Apprentice Boys march in Derry was one of the most peaceful in 15 years after only four arrests, police said.

There are hopes in the North that today's Apprentice Boys parade in Derry will pass peacefully.

A massive loyalist march in Northern Ireland passed off today without the trouble feared by many.

There were angry confrontations between police and nationalists in the village of Maghera, in Co Derry this morning.

Today's Apprentice Boys parade in North Belfast has passed off peacefully.

Police chiefs in the North have appealed for calm ahead of today's controversial Apprentice Boys of Derry parade through the flashpoint Ardoyne area of north Belfast.

The Parades Commission in the North is believed to have offered the Apprentice Boys an alternative to the total ban on their contentious parade in a nationalist area of Belfast tomorrow.

The Apprentice Boys of Derry are apparently planning to defy a Parades Commission ruling by holding a march in the nationalist Ardoyne area of Belfast this Saturday.

The Apprentice Boys in the North have accused the Parades Commission of bowing to threats of republican violence by banning a contentious march in north Belfast this Saturday.

A bitterly opposed Protestant parade was tonight barred from going past nationalist homes in north Belfast.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has met with the Parades Commission to seek the re-routing of a contentious loyalist march in Belfast this month.

The clashes at an Orange Order parade in Belfast earlier this month have led to fears of further violence at an Apprentice Boys' march in Derry next month.

The loyalist marching season today got off to one of its quietest and most peaceful starts for years.

Two people have been arrested after an articulated lorry was hijacked in Derry ahead of a large loyalist parade in the city today.

Thousands of Apprentice Boys are expected in Derry today to take part in the annual commemoration of the relief of the city in 1689.

The British government will be making a grave mistake if it were to abolish the Northern Ireland Parades Commission, nationalists warned tonight.

Northern Ireland's tourism chiefs were urged today to market the controversial and divisive Orange Order’s Battle of the Boyne celebrations like the Mardi Gras in New Orleans or France’s Bastille Day.

Police were tonight examining CCTV footage in a bid to make more arrests following violence which marred a loyalist parade in Derry earlier in the day.

Sporadic violence broke out during a loyalist parade in Derry today.

Reports of gunfire in a volatile north Belfast district where a bitterly disputed loyalist march took place were tonight being probed by police.

The annual Apprentice Boys march in Derry has finished without any violent disturbances.

A hotly disputed loyalist march has passed off peacefully in north Belfast.

The Apprentice Boys are to march past the Ardoyne shops despite a last minute plea from Sinn Fein to the Parades Commission.

The Parades Commission has granted the Apprentice Boys permission to March through the Ardoyne next Saturday.

Police were continuing their hunt today for loyalist thugs posing as Glasgow Celtic supporters believed to have been involved in a series of attacks in north Belfast.

Tension is rising in north Belfast after a Parades Commission ruling that an Apprentice Boys march can use a road near the nationalist Ardoyne district.

The North’s Parades Commission has decided to re-route the first contentious parade of this year’s loyalist marching season away from the nationalist Lower Ormeau area of south Belfast.

More than 200 people have completed a college course in stewarding loyalist band parades, it emerged today.

The Parades Commission has ruled that an Apprentice Boys march can go ahead on the Crumlin Road in Belfast this Sunday, despite objections from local nationalist residents.

Protesting loyalist residents in north Belfast have held an hour-long meeting with the board of governors of Holy Cross School for the first time in over a week.

A Sinn Fein delegation from north Belfast is due to meet the Parades Commission later today to ask it to re-route a contentious loyalist march away from nationalist areas.

Loyalist protestors have blocked a road in north Belfast to prevent a republican hunger strike march.

Loyalists blocked from walking through flashpoint areas of Belfast have accused the body ruling on controversial marches of carrying out a campaign of sectarian apartheid.

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.

One of Northern Ireland's most bitterly contested loyalist parades has been called off.