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The Drumcree Dispute Part 2 - The Return to the Garvaghy Road in 2026
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Episode The Drumcree Dispute Part 2 - The Return to the Garvaghy Road in 2026
After 28 years of bans, Drumcree is back. The story of the 2026 Garvaghy Road standoff: a court case, a midnight legal battle, and a crisis that threatened to bring down Stormont.
For 28 years, the Parades Commission said no. Every July, Portadown’s Orangemen applied to walk home from Drumcree Church along the Garvaghy Road, and every July they were refused. Then, in the summer of 2026, a procedural mistake changed everything.
In part two, we follow how one of the Troubles’ most notorious flashpoints ignited again: a court case that exposed the Parades Commission’s sloppy workings, a midnight series of legal battles, and thousands of people blocking the Garvaghy Road in the pouring rain.
We look at loyalist activist Jamie Bryson, Garvaghy Road spokesman Breandán Mac Cionnaith, a First Minister standing at the protest, and a two-week standoff that ended with the Northern Ireland Secretary stepping in, and threatened to bring down Stormont.
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