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Portadown is a predominantly Protestant town and ancestral home of the Orange Order. Other loyalist organisations were strongly represented in the town during the Troubles such as: the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF). [citation needed]
The Loyal Orange Institution, commonly known as the Orange Order, is an international Protestant fraternal order based in Northern Ireland and primarily associated with Ulster Protestants. It also has lodges in England, Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland, as well as in parts of the Commonwealth of Nations and the United States. [1] [2] [3]
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]
The overnight blaze caused extensive damage to the property.
The Drumcree conflict or Drumcree standoff is a dispute over yearly parades in the town of Portadown, Northern Ireland.The town is mainly Protestant and hosts numerous Protestant marches each summer, but has a significant Catholic minority.
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]
A former Ohio police officer was convicted of murder by a jury on Monday for fatally shooting Andre Hill, an unarmed Black man. Adam Coy, a white man and nearly 20-year veteran of the Columbus ...
Police Chief Lance Bateman said the department recently ordered an initial batch of 500, with the first ones being handed out just this week. The transition to the new patch is expected to be ...