BREANDÁN Mac Cionnaith from the Garvaghy Road Residents’ Coalition has called on the British government to ban the Drumcree Orange Order parade ‘once and for all’. In an exclusive interview with the Andersonstown News this evening, Mr Mac Cionnaith said residents who were children in the 1990s during the last parading crisis have their own children now and don’t want them to experience what they went through. Speaking about the difference between the 1990s and now, he said: “Probably the major change in almost 30 years is the confidence that our community has now locally. There was a time when you go back to the 1980s and 1990s this community was small, it was isolated.

A West Belfast rally to stand with Garvaghy Road residents has been organised for Thursday evening.

The SDLP has selected East Belfast GAA co-founder David McGreevy to contest the East Belfast constituency at the next Assembly election.

There has been a hilarious irony in having the beleaguered residents of the Garvaghy Road lectured on the merits of the law by assorted DUP dullards over the past week.

IRISH folk music group The Mary Wallopers will be on the Garvaghy Road on Thursday afternoon.