1. And other Catholic leaders had said they would no longer put up with Protestant marches celebrating past victories over Catholics. 2. Blair is trying to take the heat out of the coming season of Protestant marches, which ended in violence last year. 3. Catholic leaders then canceled a counterprotest set to take place only a few hundred yards away from the Protestant march. 4. Sir Patrick referred to a Protestant march at Drumcree, southwest of Belfast, last July. 5. The Belfast talks were impeded in July, when widespread sectarian violence erupted over a Protestant patriotic march through a Catholic district. 6. They charged him with fomenting the trouble by heading a Protestant march of the Orange Order through a Catholic area of Portadown. 7. They accused him of fomenting the trouble by insisting on heading a Protestant march of the Orange Order through a Catholic area of Portadown. 8. Trimble, according to politicians and analysts, needed a compromise on the parade that would permit the Protestant march. 9. Police blocked three previous Protestant marches this year in Bellaghy, where the Orange hall was struck by a half-dozen gasoline bombs Sunday night. 10. Protesters led by members of the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party this summer blocked traditional Protestant marches that pass near Catholic turf, including several in Dunloy. |
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