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NI Court of Appeal overturns injunction barring Drumcree Garvaghy Road parade
At an 11:30pm sitting on September 26, 2026, Northern Ireland’s Court of Appeal allowed an appeal against a High Court injunction that had temporarily blocked the Parades Commission’s determination permitting an Orange Order parade along Portadown’s Garvaghy Road on September 27, The Independent and The Irish Times reported. Lady Chief Justice Dame Siobhan Keegan said Justice Patricia Smyth, who granted the Saturday injunction, had “unfortunately erred in law.”
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Key points
- The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland overturned a High Court injunction that had temporarily blocked the Garvaghy Road parade.The IndependentThe Irish Times
- The appellate sitting was at 11:30pm on Saturday September 26, 2026.The IndependentThe Irish Times
- Lady Chief Justice Dame Siobhan Keegan said Justice Patricia Smyth had “unfortunately erred in law” in granting the injunction.The IndependentThe Irish Times
- Earlier on Saturday, Justice Smyth had temporarily suspended the Parades Commission determination permitting the Orange Order to march Garvaghy Road on Sunday.The IndependentThe Irish Times
- The commission’s Friday determination had reversed a long-standing restriction on the Drumcree route through the mainly nationalist area.The IndependentThe Irish Times
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