Drumcree security op gets underway

A scaled-down security operation is underway for the Orange Order's annual parade at Drumcree in Co Armagh.

Drumcree security op gets underway

A scaled-down security operation is underway for the Orange Order's annual parade at Drumcree in Co Armagh.

The Parades Commission has barred marchers from passing down the mainly nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown after the service at Drumcree church.

In the last two years, the parade has passed off peacefully but in previous years there had been serious violence.

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