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Some senior Portadown Orangemen claim they had been promised a parade on Garvaghy Road later that year if they could control things on the traditional parading dates. [71] Throughout the year the Orangemen and supporters held scores of protest rallies and marches in Portadown.
Drumcree Church in Portadown that was the focus of a conflict between Protestants and Catholics during the Troubles. The Drumcree dispute is perhaps the most well-known episode involving the Order since 1921. On the Sunday before 12 July each year, Orangemen in Portadown would traditionally march to-and-from Drumcree Church. Originally, most of ...
10 October 1980: An off-duty UDR soldier, James Hewitt (48), was killed by an IRA booby-trap bomb attached to his car on Tandragee Road, Portadown. He was a member of the Ulster Unionist Party. [40] 1981. 26 January 1981: A car bomb exploded in Portadown town centre, injuring three UDR soldiers and seven civilians, and damaging 16 shops. 1983
Three young brothers died when their home in Ballymoney was targeted by loyalist fire bombers in the early hours of July 12, 1998.
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As far as Chicago’s storied protests go, the numbers outside the Democratic National Convention were unremarkable. The stakes were high for Chicago. Despite hosting more political conventions ...
The protests and violence were sparked by the decision to allow the Orange Order (a Protestant, unionist organization) to march their traditional route, passing through a Catholic/nationalist neighbourhood of Portadown. Irish nationalists were outraged by the decision and by the RUC's aggressive treatment of those protesting against the march.
Tensions remain high over the prospect of protests around the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this August. Democratic convention organizers work to balance free speech with safety amid ...