Video interviews with Gerard Rice (spokesperson for the Lower Ormeau Concerned Community), Neil Liggett (spokesperson for the Ballynafeigh Orange Order) and Billy Halliday, James McKerrow and Roberta Dunlop (residents of Bangor) by Alex Thomson for ITN on 5 July 1999. Tensions were high between local communities in Northern Ireland following disputes over the annual Drumcree march and the ongoing political debate over decommissioning. Earlier that day the Parades Commission banned an Orange Order parade in Belfast from passing through the nationalist part of the Lower Ormeau Road. Rice, Liggett, Halliday, McKerrow and Dunlop discuss this ruling and the continued uncertainty over IRA decommissioning.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 5 July 1999
Name of First Interviewee: Gerard Rice, Neil Liggett
Name of Second Interviewee: Billy Halliday, James McKerrow
Name of Third Interviewee: Roberta Dunlop
Role at time of Interview: Gerard Rice (spokesperson for the Lower Ormeau Concerned Community), Neil Liggett (spokesperson for the Ballynafeigh Orange Order), Billy Halliday, James McKerrow and Roberta Dunlop (residents of Bangor)
Interviewer: Alex Thomson
Purpose: News
Media: Audiovisual
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Programme/Book/Article: ITN
Time Period covered: 1998-1999
Key Individuals: Gerard Rice, Neil Liggett, Billy Halliday, James McKerrow, Roberta Dunlop
Key Words: Drumcree, Orange Order, Lower Ormeau Concerned Community, Parades Commission, community relations, policing, IRA, decommissioning