Orange anger is directed at parades chief

NORTHERN Ireland Parades Commission chief Roger Poole and its Protestant members yesterday faced calls for them to stand down after Orangemen were banned from marching down a nationalist area.

The call came as the Orange Order’s annual Drumcree Parade in Portadown, Co Armagh, passed off without incident.

Portadown District Master Darryl Hewitt demanded the resignations after around 400 Orangemen were, for the ninth time running, blocked from returning from a church service in Drumcree through the nationalist Garvaghy Road.