1.   Local Catholics, who view the Orange march as an insulting and intimidating form of triumphalism, vowed that they would not be so accommodating again.

2.   Ronnie Flanagan, chief of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, the Northern Ireland police force, said he reluctantly decided to let the Orange march proceed.

3.   They are not in a generous mood, feeling under constant threat by the loyalists who back the Orange march.

4.   When police, fearing trouble in the Catholic neighborhood, blocked the Orange march, Protestants rioted in Belfast and elsewhere, burning buildings and firing on police.

5.   Orange marches often boil over into street violence between triumphant Protestants and a Catholic minority traditionally denied the same freedom to march.

6.   Orange marches through the Lower Ormeau have a bitter recent history.

7.   Police fired plastic bullets Friday night at Protestant hard-liners who again tried to break through barricades around the Drumcree Anglican church, where the Orange march was stopped Sunday.

8.   After Catholics blocked an Orange march in the village of Dunloy, Protestant thugs menaced worshipers at a Catholic church in predominantly Protestant Ballymena.

9.   Adams leads the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party, and other Sinn Fein figures have been instrumental in organizing Catholic opposition to Orange marches.

10.   After Catholics blocked an Orange march in Ballymena, Protestant thugs menaced worshipers at a Catholic church in predominantly Protestant Ballymena.