The BelTel

The parading crisis in Portadown seems over on the ground, but it is very much alive in the courts, on the airwaves, and in politics.

The Northern Ireland Secretary of State Chris Bryant stepped in on Friday to ban the Portadown Orange lodge from marching down the Garvaghy Road, now the Orange Order is challenging that decision in the courts.

On Monday afternoon, the Court of Appeal dismissed a challenge from Garvaghy residents to the Parades Commission’s decision to allow the parade.

In Stormont, First Minister Michelle O’Neill will face a confidence motion after taking part in a protest backing the Garvaghy Road residents, while the TUV demands the DUP take Emma Little-Pengelly out of the Executive.

Ciarán Dunbar is joined by Allison Morris.
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The St Andrews Agreement was signed twenty years ago on 13 October 2006.

Officially. it just amended the Belfast / Good Friday Agreement, but it did bring about some profound changes in Northern Ireland’s politics.

It saw the DUP and Ian Paisley signing up to the peace process.

Sinn Féin bought into policing, agreeing to work with the PSNI; the DUP agreed to go into government with them.

The two parties have dominated Stormont politics ever since.

Ciarán Dunbar is joined by political commentator David McCann.
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Northern Ireland’s Agriculture and Environment Minister Andrew Muir interviewed by Belfast Telegraph Northern Ireland Editor Sam McBride, discussing how what he says has been a ‘catastrophic’ agricultural policy went disastrously wrong in the race for cheap meat... and whether he is inadvertently embedding what he’s seeking to reverse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In recent weeks, the 2020 French hack into the secret gangster phone network Encrochat has continued to see Northern Ireland drug dealers sent to Maghaberry.
Multiple prison sentences have been handed down to some significant figures from Northern Ireland’s criminal world.
Gangsters like ‘cute hur’, ‘mint wind’ and ‘ultra gold’ are just some of those who went down after the notorious platform spilled its secrets.
Ciarán Dunbar is joined by Belfast Telegraph’s crime correspondent Allison Morris.
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The stand-off between the Drumcree Orange men and the Garvaghy residents continues.
In Belfast on Monday – a court reserved judgment on the residents’ renewed application to stop the march.
The march – and the protest has sharply divided our politicians. Some fear real damage is being done to community relations.
And in other news the SDLP in Armagh has seen fit to dump its siting MLA – Justin McNulty – why?
Ciarán Dunbar joined by our political editor, Suzanne Breen.
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