{"id":549224,"date":"2026-07-14T13:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/549224\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T13:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:06:10","slug":"parade-passes-former-belfast-flashpoint-without-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/549224\/","title":{"rendered":"Parade passes former Belfast flashpoint without incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Orange Order parade has passed a former flashpoint in Belfast without incident the morning after the traditional 12 July parades in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The return parade by Ligoniel Orange lodges past Ardoyne in the north of the city was given the green light to take place a day later by the Parades Commission for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>The area previously saw violent scenes between those who supported the parade and protesters who opposed it passing through the area, particularly on the evening return route.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, the parade passed without incident with bands playing a single drum beat amid a low-key police presence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a band marches in a parade\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0024b19a-614.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a band marches in a parade\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0024b199-614.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A small number of parade supporters clapped as it progressed from Woodvale Road on to the Crumlin Road en route to Ligoniel Orange Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands took to the streets across the North yesterday for the annual parades, held on 13 July this year due to 12 July falling on a Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The parades marked the 336th anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, where King William of Orange triumphed over King James II.<\/p>\n<p>Later today the traditional 13 July events organised by the Royal Black Preceptory in the village of Scarva, Co Armagh, will take place.<\/p>\n<p>The event includes a parade as well as a sham fight between actors playing rival monarchs William and James.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Orange Order parade has passed a former flashpoint in Belfast without incident the morning after the traditional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-549224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}