Residents meet Dublin government
A joint delegation from Lower Ormeau Concerned Community and the
Garvaghy Road Residents' Group met the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern
and Foreign Minister Ray Burke on Wednesday. During the hour-long
meeting, the residents gave first-hand accounts of the brutality
of the RUC and British Army in forcing the Orange Order march
through the Garvaghy Road last Sunday.
The delegates raised the issue of when and on what basis the
decision to force the march through the Garvaghy Road was taken,
and stated in the strongest possible terms that they believed
that a conspiracy existed at the highest level in the NIO.
Later, the residents said the Taoiseach and his minister were
left in no doubt that the groups believed that from mid-June
onwards no alternative to forcing the Orange march through the
Garvaghy Road had even been considered. They said that they
considered the consultation process which the Secretary of State
had indulged in as no more than a cynical dupe intended to cloud
the issues and create an illusion of an open agenda when in fact
the opposite was true.
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