11.   Several compromises under discussion are still possible, even though the issue is complicated by the start of the often violent summer season of Protestant parades.

12.   The atmosphere has also been contaminated by an old dispute over an annual Protestant parade through a Catholic area of Portadown, near Belfast.

13.   The hostility stems from the lagging peace effort and from an old dispute about a Protestant parade through a Catholic area.

14.   The Northern Ireland Parades Commission Monday ruled that a Protestant parade will not be allowed to march through a Catholic neighborhood in Portadown next Sunday.

15.   The week before last, the government blocked part of another Protestant parade, in Portadown, west of Belfast, from going through the Catholic area of Drumcree.

16.   This is also the start of the annual season of Protestant parades, which may be even more violent than usual.

17.   Will the talks be rendered useless as they were last year when hundreds of annual Protestant patriotic parades through Catholic neighborhoods ignited widespread violence?

18.   Police charged three Catholic men with obstruction and disorderly conduct Thursday after they tried to block a divisive Protestant parade.

19.   Police on Thursday arrested several Catholic men who tried to block a divisive Protestant parade last weekend.

20.   All week, leaders from both sides said they wanted to avoid the violence that has surrounded an annual Protestant parade through a Catholic enclave in this town.