ORANGEMEN held a religious service on the Ormeau Road in south Belfast yesterday in protest at an RUC decision to reroute their parade.
Police blocked the road with LandRovers, barring Orangemen from the Ballynafeigh District Lodge from passing through the nationalist lower Ormeau Road.
Their chaplain, the Rev William Hoey, called on the incoming British government to give, Orangemen the right to parade wherever they wanted. It was sickening that marchers were prevented from walking in their own country, he said. Sinn Fein and the IRA "have a shoot in the back policy" and "this government should take the necessary action to blow the enemy away," he added.