Orange Order granted permission to parade down Garvaghy Road

Sinn Fein TDs Pearse Doherty (far right) and Matt Carthy (fifth left) walk with members of the Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition, which is against a proposed Orange Order parade through the street in Co Armagh this weekend, as they leave Leinster House, Dublin, after a meeting with Sinn Fein. Picture date: Thursday September 24, 2026.

The DUP has hailed the decision to allow the first Orange Order return parade along the Garvaghy Road in almost 30 years as a “significant breakthrough”.

However Sinn Féin vice president Michelle O’Neill strongly condemned the Parades Commission ruling to “force an Orange march through the Garvaghy Road community”.