Drumcree ruling raises fears of sectarian confrontation in Northern Ireland

Politicians divided over what Garvaghy Road decision means for next summer’s marching season The boiling cauldron known as Drumcree that used to scald and torment Northern Ireland each summer gradually cooled two decades ago, leaving it as a name for the history books.

Instead of pitched battles between Orangemen and police around the parish church near Portadown in County Armagh, and spin-off, murderous sectarian violence across the region, a de facto truce reigned.

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