Sunday marks 25 years since the attention of the world turned to a stretch of relatively unknown road in County Armagh, as the Drumcree dispute hit its bitter and violent peak:
Violence flared across Northern Ireland in the wake of the Parades Commission decision in 1998
But things where to get worse, with one of the most infamous incidents in the history of the Northern Ireland conflict.an arson attack on their homeOne man was later convicted over their deaths.
The Portadown District Lodge said it is as "determined today as it was on 5 July 1998 to complete our return parade via the Garvaghy Road". This year, the Orange Order applied for a 3,000-person march on the Garvaghy Road - a larger-than-normal application to mark the 25th anniversary.While tensions do remain, community relations within Portadown have improved considerably since the peak of the Drumcree dispute.
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