31.   On Sunday, a standoff between Protestant marchers and several hundred Catholic protesters clogged the streets of Bellaghy, a village in the center of the province.

32.   Police said his attackers were angered by recent police operations to prevent Protestant marchers from clashing with Catholic protesters in a nearby Catholic village, Dunloy.

33.   Police who have blocked Protestant marchers at a rural church fired plastic bullets Thursday morning to repel protesters who briefly broke through a security line.

34.   Protestant marchers and Catholic protesters broke off negotiations Tuesday over plans for a controversial weekend parade along the city wall.

35.   Prime Minister Tony Blair offered to arrange contacts between Protestant marchers and Catholic protesters Friday as a tense and violent week slid into a potentially explosive weekend.

36.   Protestant marchers from the Apprentice Boys agreed to negotiate directly with Catholic protesters, while the Orange Order refused to talk.

37.   Protestant marchers threatened civil war until they got their way, then Catholics lashed out at a state where their interests are usually outvoted.

38.   Protestant marchers, blocked from parading through a Catholic area, on Monday hurled bottles and firebombs at police lines on a Belfast bridge.

39.   Protestant marchers and Catholic protesters confronted each other in towns across Northern Ireland late Saturday but avoided serious violence.

40.   She said she would be speaking with Protestant marchers about parades due in the next days.