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Richard Boyd Barrett Calls for Urgent Debate on Orange March

Richard Boyd Barrett Calls for Urgent Debate on Orange March

Richard Boyd Barrett has called for an urgent debate in Dáil Éireann this week on the proposed Orange March through the Garvaghy Road to Drumcree Church. The People Before Profit TD said residents in the mostly Catholic area were experiencing fear and anxiety after 28 years without such marches.
Richard Boyd Barrett — moment from speech: Richard Boyd Barrett Calls for Urgent Debate on Orange March (22.09.2026)

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We need an urgent debate this week on the threat of an Orange March going through the Garravaghi Road to Drumcreech Church at the weekend. I met with the Garravaghi Road residents yesterday and that mostly Catholic area is gripped with fear and anxiety that after 28 years of not having to face these triumphalist sectarian marches that have led, incited loyalist killings, led to sectarian violence will drag their area and the north back into sectarian conflict. That needs to be debated urgently.