Derry Orange parade passes peacefully
12/07/2005 - 15:30:56Derry's largest Orange parade in more than a decade passed through the city peacefully today.
More than 3,000 Orangemen marched under agreement reached between the local Lodge and nationalist residents.
There was no nationalist protest at the previously contentious flashpoint in the Diamond area.
Sinn Féin's chief negotiator Martin McGuinness said that other parts of the North should learn from Derry's example.
“Conflict is not in the interest of anybody. It's not in the interest of the Orange order, it’s certainly not in the interest of the local community in Derry," he said.
"I think all areas need to learn a lesson from Derry, and that lesson is that dialogue works, you make a deal and you keep a deal, you make commitments and you keep them.”
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