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Interviews with David Jones and Brian Currin for ITN on 2 July 2000

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 Video interview with David Jones, spokesperson for the Portadown Orange Lodge, and Brian Currin, mediator in the Drumcree dispute, for ITN on 2 July 2000. Earlier the Parades Commission had ruled that an Orange Order parade could not return from Drumcree to Portadown via the mainly nationalist Garvaghy Road. On 2 July rioting broke out between loyalist protesters and the security forces over the issue. Jones and Currin discuss the Parades Commission’s ruling.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 2 July 2000

Name of First Interviewee: David Jones

Name of Second Interviewee: Brian Currin

Role at time of Interview: David Jones (spokesperson for the Portadown Orange Lodge), Brian Currin (mediator in the Drumcree dispute)

Purpose: News

Media: Audiovisual

Copyright: ©2013 ITN All rights reserved

Link: Watch the video

Programme/Book/Article: ITN

Time Period covered: 2000

Key Individuals: David Jones, Brian Currin, Harold Gracey

Key Words: Drumcree, parade, Orange Order, Parades Commission

 

 

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