Parades Body blow
By Ned Kelly
The death knell must surely have been sounded over the Parades
Commission following last week happenings when the commission's
Preliminary Determination report was pulled after the
intervention of British prime minister Tony Blair.
Within a day of Blair's intervention ex-UDA member Glen Barr and
the Apprentice Boy's Tommy Cheevers had resigned.
Statutory legislation now comes into effect, meaning that the
Parades Commission must give only five days notice of any
decision it makes regarding a disputed parade with the
operational role of the RUC still central to any decision.
Blair explained his intervention saying it was ``preferable to
overloading the political system'' while Gerard Rice from LOCC
warned in a statement, ``the days of believing that ignoring the
feelings of the nationalist community as the least worst option
are gone.''
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