41. Protestant marches are planned for Saturday in Belfast and the predominantly Catholic town of Londonderry. 42. Residents, angered by Protestant marches through the area annually, expected the mostly Protestant police eventually to let the marchers through. 43. Riot police and soldiers shoved Catholic protesters off the street Thursday, clearing the way for a disputed Protestant march that had sparked widespread havoc to Northern Ireland. 44. Residents had protested against the string of Protestant marches through their area each year. 45. Soldiers and armored cars lined Garvaghy Road on Sunday after an early morning battle with Roman Catholics protesting a planned Protestant march through the neighborhood. 46. Tensions spilling over from a blocked Protestant march outside a rural church near Portadown were blamed for the early Sunday morning firebombing of the Quinn house. 47. Tensions spilling over from a blocked Protestant march outside a rural church near Portadown were blamed for the firebombing of the Quinn house. 48. The bulk was fired at Catholics who ran amok after police allowed a Protestant march to pass through a Catholic district. 49. The catalyst was a traditional Protestant march that police for four days blocked from passing through the main Catholic part of a town called Portadown. 50. The government on Tuesday proposed legislation to reduce violence over disputed Protestant marches, which triggered riots in Northern Ireland last summer. |
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