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Seven police hurt in disturbances at Belfast parade | Seven police hurt in disturbances at Belfast parade |
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Seven police officers were injured during protests against a loyalist marching band that broke a ban on parading past a Catholic church in central Belfast. | Seven police officers were injured during protests against a loyalist marching band that broke a ban on parading past a Catholic church in central Belfast. |
The Police Service of Northern Ireland has confirmed that it will investigate those members of the Young Conway Volunteers band who defied a legal ruling not to pay loyalist tunes or march past St Patrick's chapel in Donegall Street on Saturday. | The Police Service of Northern Ireland has confirmed that it will investigate those members of the Young Conway Volunteers band who defied a legal ruling not to pay loyalist tunes or march past St Patrick's chapel in Donegall Street on Saturday. |
The PSNI said the officers sustained minor injuries in the disturbances as nationalists protested against the band and other loyalist bands filing past the church into Belfast city centre. | |
The band caused controversy on the 12 July when a Sinn Féin activist filmed them parading outside the church playing a tune that disparages the Irish potato famine. | The band caused controversy on the 12 July when a Sinn Féin activist filmed them parading outside the church playing a tune that disparages the Irish potato famine. |
The Parades Commission – the body that adjudicates on controversial loyalist marches – had banned the Shankill Road-based band from marching past the church or playing music outside it. | The Parades Commission – the body that adjudicates on controversial loyalist marches – had banned the Shankill Road-based band from marching past the church or playing music outside it. |
The loyalist bands were parading on the final day of the marching season when the Royal Black Preceptory – a Protestant institution similar to the Orange Order – holds marches across Northern Ireland. | |
Earlier the institution had called for the last parade of the marching season to pass off peacefully and without violence. |
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