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Hundreds of protesters blocked the Garvaghy Road in Portadown on September 27, 2026, after a court allowed the Orange Order's loyalist march for the first time since 1998. Sinn Féin leaders joined the demonstration, calling the Parades Commission decision 'madness'.
🐿️ This 28-year parade ban reversal is a political tinderbox, and the court's late-night clearance suggests a legal gamble that could ignite wider sectarian unrest.
A High Court judge in Belfast has temporarily blocked a planned Orange Order parade down the mainly-nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown, after residents applied to overturn the decision. Andy Burnham called for calm amid fears of sectarian unrest.
🐿️ The court's intervention is a necessary pause, but the underlying tensions in Portadown are far from resolved.
