Sinn Fein/IRA orchestrated areas of conflict

Senior Provos stirring Orange March Trouble

Republicans believed to be behind recent opposition to Orange parades in Ulster, are planning to extend their campaign to middle class areas, it has been claimed.

Residents in Glengormley, on the outskirts of Belfast, say senior Provos have visited the bourgeois commuter belt in an effort to kick-start local resistance to Orange marches.

The move is consistent with Gerry Adams assertion at a recent Sinn Fein Ard Fheis, when he told supporters that his party were the driving force behind forcing Orangemen to re-route parades.

It is understood both Gerard Rice of the Lower Ormeau Residents Group and Brendan McKenna, who speaks for the Garvaghy Road residents, have recently made contact with republicans living in Glengormley.

Both Rice and McKenna have served jail sentences after being convicted of republican terrorist crimes.

Sunday World 11 May 1997