The plan was that, at 8am on Sunday, 35 men dressed in orange sashes and black bowler hats would march up a street in Portadown, in Northern Ireland. 

By 8.30, it was supposed to be over. 

Now, the planned march, which never took place, has become a stand-off that threatens to bring down Norther Ireland’s provincial government. 

The controversy has also reopened a tension between the town’s Catholic nationalists and Protestant loyalists that’s been contained for almost three decades. 

GUEST:

  • Professor Dominic Bryan is a specialist in politics and religion at Queens University in Belfast.

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