2026-09-27 · World news | The Guardian
🔮 But that ruling, which was described by Siobhan Keegan, Northern Ireland’s lady chief justice, as “unfortunately” an error in law, was in turn appealed against and led to the high court in the early hours of Sunday morning ruling the initial Parades Commission decision to allow the march to take place had to be respected.
But the ruling has not gone down well with residents, their supporters and political leaders who blocked any march by 35 Orangemen, saying that after 28 years there could be no return to the past.
Northern Ireland now is, however, very different from three decades ago.
There is no longer a unionist majority; indeed the first minister, Michelle O’Neill, is from Sinn Féin. assertive