Reaching an all-party agreement on Good Friday 1998 was an historic achievement; but implementing the document was to prove incredibly difficult, with progress threatened by unionist intransigence, ...

Violence erupted in 1996 between the police and thousands of loyalists at Drumcree Parish Church Difficulties facing the incoming Labour Government of Tony Blair on the issue of contentious parades ...

Tireless efforts by the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) to avert renewed violence at Drumcree ahead of the annual Twelfth march to Portadown in 1997 are detailed in this year’s declassified files from ...

THE Orange Order has launched an attack on the Parades Commission on the 20th anniversary of the Drumcree stand-off. Scores of Orangemen gathered at Drumcree parish church near Portadown in Co Armagh ...

THE Orange Order was subjected to a virtual ‘charm offensive’ in the run up to Drumcree 1997. On April 10, two leading Co Armagh Orangemen involved in the dispute, Denis Watson and Rev William Bingham ...