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.

Nationalist residents involved in the long-running Drumcree dispute in Portadown are due to meet First Minister and DUP leader Peter Robinson today.

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The appointment of two Orangemen to the Parades Commission, which rules on contentious Orange parades in Northern Ireland, was challenged in the High Court in Belfast today.

The Orange Order in Portadown, Co Armagh is reportedly considering proposals to offer direct talks with residents of the nationalist Garvaghy Road in return for permission to hold a loyalist march through their area this year.

Nationalist residents in Portadown have reportedly refused to meet the local Orange Order to discuss this year's contentious Drumcree parade.

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.

Garvaghy road residents are attacking comments made by David Trimble today.

The Orange Order in Portadown, Co Armagh, has withdrawn from mediation talks with South African lawyer Brian Currin, blaming the intransigence of the Garvaghy Rd residents for the move.

A key Portadown Orangeman is today due to have talks with the Parades Commission, which has again banned the Drumcree parade from the nationalist Garvaghy Road.

A haul of loyalist guns was seized tonight in Northern Ireland amid claims that new efforts to end the tense Orange Order stand off at Drumcree would fail.

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

A group of about 200 loyalists laid siege to the Garvaghy Road in Portadown last night until they were dispersed by the RUC.

Nationalist residents from the Garvaghy Road area of Portadown have rejected the RUC's version of events in the Woodhouse Street area last night.