UK: N.IRELAND: ORANGEMEN PROTESTS

(3 Jul 2000) English/Nat
Northern Ireland's Orangemen have vowed to continue their protest at Drumcree after the Parades Commission barred them from marching along the mainly nationalist Garvaghy Road.
Although the main march didn't materialise on schedule, large groups of protestants gathered and were prevented by police from going into a nationalist area.
By early evening the threatened Orange march through Portadown and along the Garvaghy road hadn't materialised.
But hundreds of Unionists still gathered to face off against riot equipped police.
In Drumcree, the traditional scene for flashpoints between Orangemen and security services, 50 men led by leading Loyalist Johnny Adair gathered behind a banner reading: "Shankill Road UFF Second Batt C Coy."
A convicted terrorist, Johnny Adair marched down on the army barricade and climbed on an army vehicle with the banner to huge cheers.
Their group, in white T-shirts with the words "Simply the Best", stood in silence for about 20 minutes, 50 yards from army Saracen armoured vehicles which blocked the way to the Garvaghy Road.
But there's a heavy army presence around the Drumcree church.
The Parades Commission has ruled for the third year running that there will be no march down the Garvaghy Road, a decision which has inflamed loyalist anger and heightened tension around the province each time it has been made.
This year's march had been planned for Sunday, July 9.
Portadown Orangemen refuse to talk face-to-face with the Garvaghy Road residents group because, they say, it's fronted by republicans.
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[@andrewbrand2433]

Gusty Spence was a decent man who apologised to the loved ones of his victims.

[@keithy507]

afk you’ll see him there? Doesn’t say much for you!?

[@robertemmet7756]

Still sectarian murdering psychopath.

[@paulkinsella6536]

@@robertemmet7756 Why are the same people who call the I.R.A. terrorists, carrying a U.F.F. banner. Talk about double standards and hypocracy of the highest degree.

[@andrewbrand2433]

Johnny was hunted out of the north and he slipped on his own shit running out.

[@robertemmet7756]

Bigots being put down by RUC thier own police force so much for Ulster Loyalists loyalty to England

[@masonboyne5074]

TBF you're absolutely clueless

[@leod-sigefast]

Loyalty to Britain. England has nothing to do with Ireland. England hasn't been ruled by the English since 1066. It is the Normans who overlord England...and subsequently invaded Ireland too. Embroiling all the nations of these two isles into centuries of conflict. Thank the Normans. Nothing to do with the Anglo-Saxon English folk. They never had a problem with Ireland, and vice versa. What a cliché: blame everything on England.

[@yorkigayiafgani2984]

gusty Spence and johnny Adair are two Irish heroes

[@robertlaughland681]

yorki gayi afgani Ulster Scots and they were far from heros Stevie mckeag he was the UDA best hitter Sammy rocket for the UVF QUIS,SEPARABIT WE DON'T LIKE TO BE CALLED IRISH 6 COUNTYS ULSTER

[@jaylee7150]

They Gusty and Johnny class themselves as British! not Irish!

[@michaelahern9883]

They wouldn't be a bit impressed to hear you say that .,.lol

[@williamgoldsmith3796]

@@robertlaughland681 Go get an education before commenting. The people you mention were vile sectarian murderers who murdered Catholic women and children, now F*ck off .

[@williamgoldsmith3796]

@@jaylee7150 NO they are not British, they were born on the island of Ireland, they are Irish and a disgrace to the real Protestant people of Ulster.