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Thread #130131   Message #2939980
Posted By: Jim Carroll
05-Jul-10 - 05:57 AM
Thread Name: BS: Bloody Sunday Report - AT LAST
Subject: RE: BS: Bloody Sunday Report - AT LAST
Keith - you appears to have reverted once again to infantile name-calling in place of argument and continue to attempt to dominate this thread with your idiocy.
For the record, my newspaper carries a front page photograph of the Orange march to Drumcree, having been refused permission to triumphally parade down the Catholic Garvaghy Road.
These are two of the articles carried in the inner pages - peace at last!!!
Jim Carroll

SIX OFFICERS INJURED IN ORGANISED BELFAST RIOTS
Six police officers have been injured in a second night of orches¬trated rioting in Belfast, the PSNI has said.
Nine police vehicles were dam¬aged as officers came under attack from stones, fireworks, petrol bombs, paint, masonry and, on one occasion, an axe.
Trouble flared in the Broadway area at a major junction between the Ml motorway and the West-link. About 100, rioters began attacking police, who responded with plastic bullets. The police ombudsman is investigating the firing of the rounds. The trouble eased at about 3am yesterday.
Some gas cylinders were thrown into the road at the Broadway roundabout, and a car was set alight. A fast food outlet was broken into and substantial damage caused. Two cash tills were later recovered.
A senior police officer said it was believed the trouble was preplanned, but added it was difficult to say by whom. The PSNI has appealed for more information, especially regarding the possibility that the rioters came into the area from elsewhere to target police.
"The violence that we saw last night was orchestrated," Chief Insp Emma Mooney said.
Police searches in the area before trouble began for a second night uncovered bottles, masonry , and other items which could be used in riot situations, she added.
Rioting had flared on Friday night in the same locality when four police vehicles were attacked.
The injured officers suffered head and upper body wounds. None are said to have life-threatening injuries.

POLICE PREVENT ORANGEMEN PARADING ON GARVAGHY ROAD
DAN KEENAN (Northern News Editor in Drumcree)
Portadown Orangemen have been prevented by police from marching along the nation¬alist Garvaghy Road in Portadown, Co Armagh for a 12th consecutive year.
Members of the local lodge made their way to Drumcree parish church outside the town for their annual Somme commemoration service. But they were prevented returning through the nationalist area on foot of a Parades Commission determination.
District secretary Nigel Dawson called on a small group of police officers, led by chief inspector Ken Mawhinney, to remove the light barrier blocking Drumcree Road, but this was refused.
Orangemen dispersed peacefully a short time later after a defiant speech by district master Darryl Hewitt in which he called for the disbandment of the Parades Commission. He also denounced the Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition and accused the police of enforcing one rule for them and another for unionists in Co Armagh.
He told members of Portadown lodge that senior Orangemen were "putting in a lot of time and effort seeking a resolution to the impasse".
"We will not be walking away from this place and I can assure you that we will continue to work hard to achieve what we desire." He said marchers attempted to complete their original banned parade "each and every Sunday... And there is still a presence on the hill every night".
"One must ask the question, 'Why are we still here this year?' After all the chair of the Parades Commission [Rena Shepherd] stood at this place last Drumcree Sunday and stated that she would have the situation resolved by December." He claimed Orangemen had met Ms Shepherd on at least three occasions since last year and claimed they had been told the commission was not prepared to initiate any sanctions against the nationalist residents.
Mr Hewitt added: "The sooner the Parades Commission is dis¬solved the better - tomorrow would do." He said it would be "interesting to see what comes of the new arrangements for parading in Northern Ireland". These were promised as part of the deal to secure the devolution of policing and justice powers to Stormont concluded at Hillsborough in February.
"When the new body comes into being you can be sure that the first issue to be dealt with is our parade from this place back to Carleton Street." Turning to the police, Mr Hewitt asked why no nationalist had been threatened with arrest "regarding illegal parades that take place around Northern Ireland".
"It seems to be that there is one law for the nationalist-republican community and another for the unionist community," he alleged.