Drumcree stand-off will be resolved, say police

A RESOLUTION to the Orange Order stand-off at Drumcree will be found at some stage, a Northern Ireland police chief claimed yesterday.

With security chiefs preparing to block any attempt by the Orangemen to march on the flashpoint Garvaghy Road, Portadown, in Co Armagh tomorrow, assistant chief constable Stephen White said: “How and when it will be sorted out, I don’t know, but I believe there will be an agreement.”

The Orangemen have been banned from the Garvaghy Road since 1997 because of objections of Catholics and nationalists.