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Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald and Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill attending a community event

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Sir Chris Bryant

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A PSNI vehicle at the Garvaghy Road

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Loyalist activist Jamie Bryson speaks outside court

Chief Constable’s advice on Drumcree parade to be scrutinised in legal challenge

Northern Ireland Policing Board

PSNI chief asks NI Secretary to review determination over Drumcree parade

Michelle O’Neill and other Sinn Fein politicians

Michelle O’Neill receives police letter over Drumcree protest

Demonstrators holding placards outside the Northern Ireland Office in Belfast

Michelle O’Neill says she has not received police letter over Drumcree protest

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Drumcree Orange Order parade

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Drumcree Orange Order parade

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Drumcree Orange Order parade

Sinn Fein will ‘of course’ co-operate with any PSNI probe into Garvaghy Road

Residents blocking Garvaghy Road

Drumcree standoff continues week after parade due to start

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald and Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill attend a community event in support of the Garvaghy Road residents in the Drumcree parade dispute

O’Neill criticises Bryant comments about Drumcree stand-off

Micheal Martin speaking to the media

Taoiseach questions Sinn Féin ‘sincerity’ over Garvaghy Road situation

Drumcree Orange Order parade

Proposed deal to resolve Drumcree dispute ‘not acceptable’, says DUP MP

Drumcree Orange Order parade

Garvaghy Road residents say they will accept Drumcree deal if Orange Order do

Head and shoulders photo of Jon Boutcher speaking, in uniform

Mob rule must not be allowed to win, PSNI chief warns in Drumcree parade dispute
Jon Boutcher said he would continue to seek a way to facilitate an Orange Order march down the predominantly nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown.
Jonathan McCambridge, Rebecca Black and David Young, Press Association

First Minister Michelle O’Neill meets locals on the Garvaghy Road

Michelle O’Neill ‘stands over’ choice to take part in Drumcree parade protest

Three men walking out the gates of Hillsborough Castle

Bryant ‘left in no doubt’ law must be applied over Drumcree parade – Orangeman

Drumcree Orange Order parade

Latest round of talks to break Drumcree impasse gets under way

A banner reading 'Garvaghy Road Says No' displayed on the Garvaghy Road

Further talks to be held in bid to break Drumcree parade dispute

Garvaghy Road sign

Garvaghy Road residents launch fresh legal bid to stop parade

A PSNI vehicle near Drumcree Church on Tuesday

Bryant urges all sides to ‘double down on compromise’ over Drumcree dispute

Drumcree Orange Order parade

Drumcree stalemate enters third day with further talks expected

Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Chris Bryant

NI Secretary seeking solution to Drumcree dispute ‘through the mist’

(left to right), DUP MLA Jonathan Buckley, party leader Gavin Robinson MP, speaking with media, and DUP MLA Diane Dodds in the Great Hall at Parliament Buildings, Stormont, after a plenary sitting of the Northern Ireland Assembly following a day-long stand-off over the Drumcree parade

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Drumcree Orange Order parade

Northern Ireland Secretary holds crunch talks over Drumcree parade dispute

Michelle O'Neill at Garvaghy Road

First Minister Michelle O’Neill accused of ‘breaking the law’ on Garvaghy Road
DUP leader Gavin Robinson said she has broken her pledge of office, and ‘standards have been shattered’.
Claudia Savage and Josh Payne, Press Association

A sticker on a road sign on the Garvaghy Road in Portadown, following the decision by the Parades Commission to allow the first Orange Order return parade along the road in almost 30 years

PM urges people to ‘work calmly’ after Drumcree parade is given go-ahead

Garvaghy Road in Portadown

DUP hails ‘breakthrough’ on Drumcree parade as Sinn Féin condemns decision

Sinn Fein press conference

UUP chief challenges Michelle O’Neill to head-to-head debate on Irish unity

First Minister Michelle O’Neill and Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald respond to questions from the media

Dublin and London ‘directly challenged’ to prepare for Irish unity referendum

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First Ministers meeting

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Ireland's foreign affairs minister Helen McEntee

Irish minister says there ‘will be a border poll’ on united Ireland in future

Michelle O’Neill speaks to journalists

Sinn Féin not walking away from Stormont – Michelle O’Neill

A musician performs in Belfast's Cathedral Quarter

Success of Belfast Fleadh ‘a dream come true’ for organisers

Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann 2026

Fleadh visitor numbers to Belfast expected pass one million by Friday

Irish President Catherine Connolly speaking at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2026, which has officially opened in Belfast

President Connolly opens Belfast Fleadh celebrating ‘universality’ of music

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald and deputy leader and Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill

Government to oppose Sinn Fein unity Bill

Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald

Sinn Fein unity bill is ‘political test’, Mary Lou McDonald says

Simon Harris (left)

No one political party owns conversation on Irish unity – Harris

A burned out Glider bus on Newtownards Road in east Belfast after violence erupted on Tuesday night following a stabbing attack in the Kinnaird Avenue residential area

‘Sickening’ racist riots condemned as Sudanese man remanded over Belfast attack

North Belfast stabbing

Man due in court over Belfast knife attack following night of violence

Michelle O’Neill says UK elections on track for ‘seismic change in politics’

Deputy First Minister says unionism ‘sees through’ calls for Stormont reform

Gender-based violence centre of talks between Irish and Northern Irish leaders

Michelle O’Neill says she is ‘not fixated on titles’ amid Stormont reform talk

O’Neill says she will work to reform Stormont to ‘end the blockage on progress’

Michelle O’Neill says Irish unity poll by 2030 is ‘very conceivable’

Decisions on fuel costs must come from Westminster, not Stormont, O’Neill says

O’Neill and Little-Pengelly call for decisive action from Starmer on fuel costs

First Minister ‘wrong’ to stay away from Washington DC, Lyons says

Taoiseach ‘wouldn’t overstate’ impact of First Minister White House boycott

Little-Pengelly leads mission to showcase NI in Washington on St Patrick’s Day

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