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““What we saw on Friday disgracefully was the appeasement to threats of violence and disorder, appeasement in the face of threats of terror,” he told BBC Northern Ireland’s Sunday Politics programme.”

“Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill has said she will “co-operate” with a police investigation after she received a letter from the PSNI probing alleged criminal offences relating to her involvement in a protest against an Orange Order parade…”

“Prime Minister Andy Burnham has appealed for calm on all sides amid plans for an Orange Order parade to pass through a predominantly nationalist area of Northern Ireland for the first time in decades.”

“The row has engulfed Northern Ireland politics since the region’s Parades Commission ruled more than two weeks ago that the Portadown district of the Orange Order should be allowed to march through the largely nationalist enclave for the first time in 28…”

““We have big challenges ahead, trying to fight for a budget for the people of Northern Ireland, trying to drive forward transformation and progress.”

“That had the knock-on effect of Chris Bryant — who had been promised the culture, media and sport portfolio — ending up with the Northern Ireland brief instead.”

“He worked for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland (DPP) as an assistant director.”

““While the Northern Ireland Executive is in serious negotiations with the Treasury and Secretary of State to deliver finance for public services, Michelle O’Neill is in Cardiff poking the Prime Minister in the eye and co-operating with other nationalists and…”

““I’m not into campaigning, but I would make the point that strategically we have never embroiled Northern Ireland in British politics.”