Police Bar Protestant March in Catholic Area
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From Times Wire Reports
Northern Ireland police used a steel barricade to bar Protestant hard-liners from parading through the main Catholic section of divided Portadown.
The annual confrontation between Orangemen and the predominantly Protestant police force has triggered protracted rioting several times.
But on Sunday, police donned no heavy riot gear and required no British army backup as Orange leaders and members appeared to concede defeat in the long-running dispute over the parade route, blocked since 1998.
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