11.   Police announced Monday they would block a smaller Protestant march Saturday past Catholic homes in south Belfast.

12.   Police faced a riot after stopping one Protestant march from going through the Lower Ormeau Road on Easter Monday.

13.   A homemade bomb exploded outside a west Belfast police station early Monday amid heightened tensions over a Protestant march through a hostile Catholic neighborhood.

14.   A similarly contentious Protestant march through a Catholic neighborhood in the city of Portadown touched off widespread violence in July.

15.   Adams said he will also ask Blair to ensure that annual Protestant marches this summer are kept out of hostile Catholic areas.

16.   Adams said Flanagan, like Annesley, was responsible for forcing Protestant marches through Catholic areas.

17.   An unidentified gunman shot several British soldiers and police as they patroled north Belfast late Friday on the eve of Protestant marches throughout Northern Ireland, police said.

18.   Angry Catholics attacked withdrawing soldiers in Portadown on Sunday after the troops had restrained them to allow a Protestant march through their neighborhood.

19.   Army bulldozers and police armored cars shunted burned-out vehicles off Belfast roads Tuesday after a night of sectarian violence and looting sparked by a showdown over a Protestant march.

20.   But annual pro-British Protestant marches have passed with surprising calm, thanks to an unexpected compromise.