Tense moments at Orange protest

Sunday 20 December 1998 00:02 GMT

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Tense moments at Orange protest

At least 5,000 Orangemen and supporters marched through the centre of Portadown to Drumcree parish church, where local Orangemen have maintained a protest presence since July for being denied the right to march down the town's nationalist Garvaghy Road. Hundreds of police and troops, including members of the Parachute Regiment, were drafted into the area amid fears of violent confrontation. It appeared at one stage that police blocking the road leading to the Garvaghy Road would be outflanked as hundreds of protesters flooded into fields alongside it.

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