28K 80K Demonstrators took to the streets in several Protestant communities following the march, pelting police with rocks and firecrackers. Barricades of burning cars and furniture blocked streets in at least two Belfast neighborhoods and police said they seized nail bombs in Larne to the north. The latest violence began after Orange Order members staged the tense but peaceful march near a Roman Catholic neighborhood in Portadown. An estimated 2,000 members of the Orange Order made the three-mile march from Portadown to the Anglican Drumcree Church, the spiritual home of the conservative Protestant brotherhood. Authorities ban marchers from Catholic neighborhood Authorities have refused to allow the Orangemen passage down the road, which goes through a largely Catholic neighborhood.
Residents consider the march triumphalist and deeply insulting.
Marchers, who argue it is their right to parade down the road, delivered a letter protesting its closure to police. Orange Order members have pledged that they will eventually get their way and be allowed to march down Garvaghy Road. They have vowed to stage further protests this week. On Sunday Portadown's senior Orangeman, Tom Gracey, said that the British government had in the past been forced to change policy when faced with street violence. People lined the streets of Portadown, Northern Ireland, to view the Orange Order procession on Sunday Car bomb rocks predominantly Catholic community Hours before the Portadown march, a car bomb rocked a nearby, predominantly Catholic community.