Northern Ireland's Greatest Haunts: Bellaghy Bawn
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Northern Ireland's Greatest Haunts - Bellaghy Bawn
NORTHERN IRELAND: WEEKEND OF MARCHES ENDS PEACEFULLY
A tense weekend of demonstrations in Northern Ireland ended peacefully Monday.
After a lengthy standoff, a Protestant march was allowed to pass through a largely Roman Catholic village without incident.
Police and clergymen brokered an end to a 20-hour confrontation between pro-Irish Catholics and Protestants loyal to Britain.
The parade then moved through the village of Bellaghy with none of the violence that had been feared.
Early morning in Bellaghy on day two of the tense stand off, proof that religious tensions continue to bedevil Northern Ireland.
Members of the Royal Black Preceptory -- pro-British and strongly Protestant -- stand waiting to march, separated by police from nationalist protestors gathered further up the road.
The small village of Bellaghy -- about 30 miles (50 km) northwest of Belfast -- was the scene of tension between Protestant marchers and Catholic residents.
The long, cool night and lack of sleep was beginning to take its toll on the morale of the police and protestors alike.
On the loyalist side, the mood of supporters showed no sign of compromise.
UPSOUND:
I'm British -- born British and by the grace of God, I'll die British. Never give in.
SUPER CAPTION; vox pop loyalist supporter
But behind the scenes, negotiators from both sides were close to a deal that would break the deadlock and secure a peaceful resolution.
A spokesman for the residents confirmed that agreement had been reached.
SOUNDBITE:
We, the Bellaghy Concerned Residents, have just now given our consent for the Royal Black Perceptory, to parade as far as the Orange Hall.
SUPER CAPTION: Paul Smith, Bellaghy Concerned Residents
As the parade started, Royal Ulster Constabulary Deputy Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagn helped supervise police operations.
When the marchers reached the Orange Hall, the parade turned around as protestors watched in silence.
Leaders of the loyalists marchers were angry their traditional celebrations had been disrupted.
SOUNDBITE:
Well understandably, I am most annoyed by virtue of the fact that I came to this village in which I live yesterday to help my brother Sir Knights organise our church parade and I was prevented from going to church.
SUPER CAPTION: Robert Overend, Royal Black Perceptory
Some residents hope Monday's compromise means there will be no lasting damage to community relations.
SOUNDBITE:
I hope not now anyway because we've got some very, very, nice Protestant neighbours and friends. I have a lot of friends and they're Protestants you know, so let's hope still that we remain so. You know there might be a wee bit of difference for a week or so but after that it will die over.
SUPER CAPTION: Mary Anne Muldoon
Many in Northern Ireland now hope examples set recently in Londonderry and in Bellaghy, are the way of the future.
They hope negotiations will continue to triumph over confrontation for what remains of the marching season.
In two weeks time that hope will be tested when another loyalist parade is scheduled to proceed through Bellaghy.
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N. IRELAND: PARADES COMMISSION TO DECIDE ON ORANGEMEN MARCH
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Northern Ireland's hoped-for future of political compromise faces a fundamental test on Monday.
That is when the Parades Commission will rule on whether Protestant Orangemen can march next weekend through the Catholic section of Portadown.
Some smaller marches did pass off peacefully on Sunday - including an Orange march in Belfast and one in County Londonderry.
The annual confrontation between Catholic protesters and Protestant Orangemen during the marching season has caused bloodshed and bitterness over the years.
The signs were not good when on Saturday night Catholics clashed with riot police before the start of an Orange parade in west Belfast which had been cleared to cross the peace-line in the Springfield Road.
But fears of further violence on Sunday proved unfounded.
One march in Belfast passed off peacefully, despite being rerouted by the Parades Commission.
The Ballynafeigh Orange Lodge members were banned from Belfast's Catholic Lower Ormeau Road.
Instead, they stopped at police lines and held an hour-long service of remembrance on Ormeau Bridge.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Many have lost loved ones, many have lost property, many have lost their health through the troubles that have come to this province these past years; and it goes on and on and on.
SUPER CAPTION: Orangeman
But the Commission's long-awaited verdict on whether Orangemen can march through the Catholic section of Portadown next weekend has much of Northern Ireland living in dread.
If the commission lets the parade go ahead, Catholic protesters - directed by a former Irish Republican Army prisoner - have vowed to confront the police and British army.
If the Orange Order is barred from Portadown's Garvaghy Road, Northern Ireland's 80-thousand-strong Protestant fraternal group is threatening to cause chaos across the province until it gets its way.
The confrontation in Portadown has assumed symbolic significance above all others - making retreat for either side hard to contemplate.
In Bellaghy, County Londonderry, another march also passed off without problems -- despite a letter of protest handed over police lines.
UPSOUND: (English)
Overend: Why and I and my brothers, with my band prevented from preceding?
Police Officer: I am carrying out the directions of the parades commission and am enforcing their determination.
Overend: The letter which I am given to you from the Secretary of State also includes a reference to the parades committee, despite the fact that we in the Orange institution do not recognise this.
SUPER CAPTION: Robert Overend, Grand Master of Orange Lodge and Police Officer
This year the new Parades Commission - three Catholics and three Protestants led by an English former labour-union negotiator - has tried to strike an elusive balance.
But Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam has admitted it's a no-win situation, a conflict of rights and that the coming week could prove difficult and terrible.
Ulster Unionist Leader David Trimble, who stands poised to be appointed as leader of the newly elected multi-party government in Northern Ireland, said his party would work through the difficulties.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
The thing you should focus on is the Ulster Unionist Party is going into this assembly as the largest party in the assembly; and its going there determined to overcome the difficulties that there undoubtedly will be. The party will shoulder its responsibilities.
SUPER CAPTION: David Trimble, Leader of Ulster Unionist Party
Trimble, who is Portadown's representative in the British parliament, also warned the Parades Commission to make no foolish decisions on Monday.
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Clonony Castle is located in County Offaly and was built by the MacCoughlan clan in the early 1500s. In the 17th century the castle was given to King Henry VIII who then gave it to Thomas Boleyn in order to secure his daughter’s, Anne’s, hand. After King Henry got bored of Anne and had her beheaded, it was no longer safe to be a Boleyn in England. Thus, Anne’s cousins, Mary and Elizabeth Boleyn, were exiled to the Clonony Castle in Ireland. After the two sisters died, they were buried under a hawthorn tree in the castle grounds.
The main ghost associated with the castle is that of a man who can be seen standing at the top of the tower, shrouded in mist. His figure is tall and skeleton-like and he wears old fashioned clothes. Passing motorists often see him at night, as well as an eerie glow which seems to surround him. Visitors of the castle have also claimed to have seen a figure of a man on top of the tower. Perhaps it is his mysterious identity that makes him so appealing. So next time you are in the area, keep your eyes peeled for a strange, mysterious man enveloped in mist!
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