Parades Commission members under pressure to stand down

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

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.