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Protestant parade peaceful

PORTADOWN (Northern Ireland): Police blocked about 2,000 Protestants from parading through the main Catholic district of this bitterly divided town on Sunday, the seventh year in a row that the hard-line Orange Order brotherhood was been blocked in its tracks. Orange leaders handed in a letter of protest to police commanders at a 3-metre-high steel wall blocking the road. They demanded to be allowed to march to the centre of Portadown via Garvaghy Road, where Catholic hard-liners have mounted protests for the past decade. But police commanders quietly said they were obliged to uphold a ruling from the British Government-appointed Parades Commission. Every year since 1998, the expert panel has said the Orange Order won't be allowed through until the group drops its decade-old ban on negotiations with Garvaghy Road protest leaders. — AP

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