This Saturday evening (2nd August) in Portadown at least fifteen bands and several hundred other participants and supporters will take part in yet another controversial, sectarian parade in the County Armagh town. On average, well over forty such parades are held in Portadown each year, the majority of them organised by the Orange Order, the Black Institution, and other unionist groups.

Given the disturbances in Ballymena on both Monday and Tuesday nights (9th & 10th June), it should come as no surprise that the far-right and their followers in various parts of the Six Counties