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Donaldson says loyalist parade response ‘will be peaceful’

Posted By: July 05, 2014

  Loyalists have held a protest camp in north Belfast since last year’s ruling   Loyalist paramilitaries will take a “peaceful approach” over the restriction of a contentious parade, DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson has said. A joint unionist statement was issued by parties including the paramilitary-linked Progressive Unionist Party and Ulster Political Research Group. Mr Donaldson said […]

BIG TWO PURSUING POWER PROCESS AT OUR EXPENSE

Posted By: July 05, 2014

Patrick Murphy. Irish News ( Belfast). Saturday, July 5, 2014. MARTIN McGuinness is right. (Now, there is a sentence you were not expecting.) Prior to his London visit, Mr McGuinness said that the Conservative Party is actively courting the DUP for parliamentary support after next May’s British general election. This, he suggested, removed much of […]

SF accuses DUP of yielding to hardline elements over parade

Posted By: July 05, 2014

  Dan Keenan. Irish Times. Friday, July 4, 2014, 17:00 Unionist leaders are being pressed to clarify what they mean by a “graduated response” in protest at a decision to ban anOrange demonstration at a north Belfast sectarian interface. Deputy First Minister Martin McGuiness accused the DUP of being swayed by its own hardline elements […]

Unionists stay tight-lipped on proposed plan of action

Posted By: July 05, 2014

John Manley . IRISH NEWS ( BELFAST). Saturday, July 5, 2014 UNIONISM was yesterday remaining tight-lipped about what form its ‘graduated response’ might take after Thursday’s Parades Commission determination on the return leg of a July 12 march on the Crumlin Road. After the DUP and Ulster Union-ists walked out of the revived talks process at Stormont, they released […]

Ardoyne parade: ‘We are at boiling point… this sends out wrong message’

Posted By: July 05, 2014

  Saturday 5 July 2014  Hi 18°C | Lo 8°C CHANGEBelfast  CHRIS KILPATRICK. Belfast Telegraph. Saturday, July 5, 2014  For 12 months they have been at the heart of the toxic parading row. News of the decision by the parading watchdog to stop the Ligoniel lodges completing the return route for the second year in a row spread within minutes at […]

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