Insight: Drumcree Marching

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Insight: Drumcree Marching

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Location

Drumcree, Portadown

Year

1997

Date

Transmission 03/07/1997

Length

25min 13sec

Audio

sound

Format

Betacam SP

colour

Source

Digitised as part of the UTV Archive Partnership Project (ITV, Northern Ireland Screen and PRONI)

Courtesy

Department for Communities, ITV, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

Mike Nesbitt introduces this evening news segment, focused on the 12th July parades through Dumcree in the town of Portadown. 

Throughout the years Drumcree marching has been an issue of controversy as the Orange Order insist on their right to march the traditional route which though was once farmland, now houses a significant Catholic minority. We are told that the Secretary of State is meeting with security forces to discuss this years march. 

The Grand Orange Lodge offered a statement, outlining their views and providing a compromise of no music, no politicians and only one union flag as they march through the area. However, Breandan MacCionnaith of the Garvaghy Road Residents' Coalition, says that though this is a welcome development, if they were sincere the "next logical step would be to enter into dialogue immediately".

At the end of the programme, representative politicians from both sides of the argument join Nesbitt to put forth their feelings on the matter. 

Credits

A UTV Production.

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