What is the Orange Order parade dispute in Ardoyne?

Loyalist protests began after a Parades Commission decision not to allow the return leg of an Orange parade to pass a section of Crumlin road in north Belfast.

The commission said Orangemen could walk on this stretch of road in the morning but not in the evening.

The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland called the decision “ludicrous” and damaging to community relations.

The DUP said many would see the Parades Commission decision as “a reward for violence”, but Sinn Féin called it “sensible”.

Two residents groups from the adjacent, predominantly nationalist, Ardoyne area called off planned protests against the proposed Orange parade as “a sign of good faith”.

Loyalist campaigners vowed to keep protesting until the original parade was allowed to return past the Ardoyne shops section of Crumlin Road.

In the same month, police officers from elsewhere in the UK were brought in to support the PSNI with more than 550 parades, 43 of which were regarded as “sensitive”.