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He was shot dead while sitting in his car outside his home on Derrylettiff Road near Portadown. He was also a member of the Orange Order. [54] The killing was part of a loyalist feud. [55] 26 May 2000: LVF members shot dead UVF member Martin Taylor (35) at his home on Silverstream Park, Belfast. This killing was part of a loyalist feud. [55]
27 October: The "Protestant Action Force" claimed responsibility for killing a Catholic civilian, whose body was found at the back of a farmhouse at Mullantine, near Portadown. [81] He had been beaten, strangled and then shot by UVF members after taking a lift from Lurgan to Portadown, together with a friend who managed to escape. [82]
The parade was one of three which had been staged by the Orange Order to march through the Tunnel and was the scene of rioting from as early as 1873. In the modern troubles, this flashpoint became the source of confrontation between the Catholics of the Tunnel area and Protestants from neighbouring Edgarstown, often exacerbated by men from ...
It is the biggest public inquiry in British history. [177] 29 May Devolution was restored to the Northern Ireland Assembly. [176] 2–12 July Drumcree conflict – the annual Orange Order parade was banned from marching through the nationalist Garvaghy area of Portadown. The security forces erected large barricades to prevent loyalists from ...
The Protestant Orange Order was blocked from marching its traditional route through the Catholic part of Portadown. Catholic residents held mass protests against the yearly march, seeing it as triumphalist and supremacist , forcing police to halt the march. [ 29 ]
Ohio Fraternal Order of Police leaders back the bill, saying the system has been out of balance since it was set up 40 years ago. ... Police recruitment in Ohio is down, according to the union, by ...
Security barriers in Portadown, County Armagh at the height of the Troubles. Wright made his home in Portadown from the time he transferred there as a teenager. In the more strongly loyalist environment of Portadown, nicknamed the "Orange Citadel", [15] Wright was, along with other working-class Protestant teenagers in the area, targeted by the loyalist paramilitary organisation, the Ulster ...
About 100 rioters clashed with the RUC in Bellaghy and the Orange hall was hit by a number of petrol-bombs. [49] Another three Orange halls were burnt in Portadown, Dunloy and Moy. [27] [48] During disturbances in Portadown on Tuesday morning, an RUC officer was shot in the arm and leg by IRA members near Garvaghy Road. [29]