McGuinness pressed to give go-ahead for Orange march: The Irish Times - Dan Keenan

DAN KEENAN in Coleraine, Co Derry THE HEAD of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland has challenged Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness to condemn the murder of Orangemen during the Troubles and pressed for a march to be allowed along Garvaghy Road from Drumcree church in Portadown. Grand Secretary Drew Nelson made his call as the order commemorated the Battle of the Somme at a series of parades across Northern Ireland last night. A parade in Coleraine, which passed close to the spot in the Heights area where Catholic Kevin McDaid was beaten to death by loyalists in May, was completed without incident. Mr McDaid’s widow Evelyn, a Protestant and a mother of four, had appealed for the murder of her husband not to become the focus of renewed sectarianism in the town. The parade by local lodge, Killowen Purple Heroes, changed the... [read full story]                    

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