Protestants March Against Restrictions

Protestant hard-liners marched across Northern Ireland on Wednesday, vowing to protest until they regain the right to parade past Catholic areas. More than 80,000 members of the Orange Order, Northern Ireland’s once-dominant Protestant fraternal group, paraded through Belfast and 17 other towns to commemorate the triumph of the Protestant King William of Orange over a Catholic foe on July 12, 1690. There were no reports of major violence.