Portadown Orangemen meet over Drumcree

Members of the Portadown Orange Lodge are meeting this evening to discuss this Sunday's Drumcree parade which has again been …

Members of the Portadown Orange Lodge are meeting this evening to discuss this Sunday's Drumcree parade which has again been prevented from marching back from a church service along the mainly nationalist Garvaghy Road.

The meeting follows a series of reports that an intermediary is meeting with Orangemen in an effort to resolve the dispute over the parade route, according to a BBC report this evening.

The Parades Commission ruled that the parade could not continue along the Garvaghy Road.

The Portadown lodge's parade and church service commemorates the anniversary of the battle of the Somme. It takes place on the first Sunday of July.