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A controversial loyalist parade along a nationalist street in the Northern Ireland<\/a> town of Portadown has been permitted to go ahead for the first time in nearly 30 years, after a ban was overturned late on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Amid fears the march could unleash fresh sectarian violence, the Orange Order parade down the Garvaghy Roadis due to take place at 8am on Sunday morning, and follows a legal back-and-forth in recent days.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Saturday, after a five-hour hearing at a special sitting of the high court, Justice Patricia Smyth issued an order temporarily suspending the parade.<\/p>\n

Smyth had urged all sides to \u201cstep back from the abyss\u201d and take responsible decisions for \u201cthe sake of everyone in Northern Ireland\u201d.<\/p>\n

But at 11.30pm on Saturday, at a sitting of the court of appeals, Lady Chief Justice Siobhan Keegan said the high court judge who granted the injunction against the march had \u201cunfortunately erred in law\u201d.<\/p>\n

A new application at the high court to stop the Protestant protest from passing through the Catholic area was also dismissed in the early hours of Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

The time-limited sitting beginning at 12.20am on Sunday was heard before Justice Michael Humphreys.<\/p>\n

He acknowledged the \u201cunusual if not unprecedented circumstances as it is now 1.45am, with a parade scheduled to begin in just over six hours\u2019 time\u201d.<\/p>\n

Outlining his decision, Humphreys cited case law that as a public body the courts must respect its judgment and \u201ctheir decisions will not be lightly interfered with\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe picture painted here is of a public body which took evidence from the relevant sources, weighed up the key issues which were in play and arrived at a reasoned decision,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe jurisdiction to impugn (a) public body\u2019s decision on that basis is necessarily limited to cases where no reasonable decision could arrive at that outcome and in my view in this case that threshold has not been met.\u201d<\/p>\n

The march down Garvaghy Road had been banned for 28 years due to widespread sectarian violence in 1998 outside Drumcree church.<\/p>\n

Smyth had warned on Saturday that \u201cthis particular long-running dispute has the potential to escalate within Northern Ireland\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cBe big enough to step back from the abyss,\u201d she had told the parties in court.<\/p>\n

Michelle O\u2019Neill, first minister of Northern Ireland, said after the appeal decision late on Saturday: \u201cThe decision tonight to overturn the court ruling, and force an unwanted orange march through the Garvaghy Road, is disgraceful.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis march is steeped in a history of hate, sectarian violence, and murder, and championed by Unionist leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur message tonight is clear. There is no going back. Not tomorrow. Not ever. Sinn F\u00e9in stands fully with the Garvaghy Road community, and they have the full support of people from right across Ireland in the period ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>People gathered outside the high court in Belfast high court on Saturday awaiting the decision by Justice Smyth.<\/span> Photograph: Mark Marlow\/PA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The <\/strong>SDLP leader, Claire Hanna, said the parade plan was \u201cprovocative\u201d. She told residents she was \u201cso sorry\u201d that some \u201cbad faith actors\u201d were \u201cintent on reopening the hurt and the traumas of the past\u201d.<\/p>\n

Fears of clashes increased on Saturday after a request to the commission for permission for a countermarch, a protest that, it was estimated, could be attended by up to 5,000 people, the court heard. That was later revised to 300.<\/p>\n

On Friday night, the British prime minister, Andy Burnham, appealed to leaders to \u201cwork calmly\u201d through the weekend while the Northern Ireland secretary, Chris Bryant, called for \u201ccool heads\u201d, saying Northern Ireland had \u201cwithstood many moments of sharp disagreement over the years\u201d and must do so again.<\/p>\n

Before her ruling, Smyth had asked the parties in court, including the Police<\/a> Service of Northern Ireland and the Parades Commission, to \u201cconsider carefully the very important issues to our society\u201d raised in this case, and the importance that they were dealt with properly given the \u201cimportance of this case to community relations\u201d.<\/p>\n

She also noted that the issues of judicial review were of \u201csuch fundamental importance\u201d that it could be unwise to hold a full hearing without all the facts.<\/p>\n

The Democratic Unionist MP Carla Lockhart insisted nationalist residents on the road had \u201cnothing to fear\u201d from the march on Sunday, but Sinn F\u00e9in leader Mary Lou McDonald described the decision as \u201cutterly reckless\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Parades Commission placed a number of restrictions on the procession, including an 8am start and limiting the number of participants to 35 people, but did not impose any restrictions on the route.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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