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Mark Hennessy

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Mark Hennessy

    A Jesuit priest at Drumcree church: ‘They even called me up to say a prayer’ (opens the original)

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    There are many places you might expect to see a Jesuit priest around the Garvaghy Road this week, but praying in Drumcree’s Church of Ireland church is not one of them. That’s where Fr Brendan McPartlin, one of two Jesuits in the order’s Iona Centre in Church Hill Park, off the Garvaghy Road, was to be found on Tuesday night, alongside local rector Rev Gary Galway. “They even called me up to say a prayer,” says McPartlin. The Drumcree prayer service had no connection with the small num

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Mark Hennessy

    Reluctant Garvaghy Road resistance point man Breandán Mac Cionnaith rises to Drumcree challenge (opens the original)

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    On a wet afternoon in the Drumcree Community Trust centre off Garvaghy Road, Breandán Mac Cionnaith wends his way through tables filled with local residents having a late lunch in search of a quiet room. Thirty years ago, Mac Cionnaith was the face of Garvaghy Road when the Orange Order’s attempt to march from Drumcree made global headlines for four difficult years in a row. Now 69, he is not glad to be back in the spotlight, as some have charged. “Nobody saw this coming. I never thought we

  3. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Mark Hennessy

    What next amid tension in Drumcree? It’s complicated ... (opens the original)

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    Over the last few days, the small group of Orange Order members at Drumcree Church have marched down the hill towards Garvaghy Road, only to be stopped by Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officers. The short procession has happened many times since Sunday morning. The encounters at the bottom have been described as “confrontations” or “standoffs”. In reality, they have been both brief and polite. And they are in sharp contrast to the scenes that played out here 30 years ago when

  4. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Mark Hennessy

    Drumcree: ‘I want to stop all this in its tracks. I have five grandchildren; it’s breaking my heart’ (opens the original)

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    Dessie Trainor remembers travelling up the Garvaghy Road in April 1975 behind his mother’s coffin expecting the procession to continue on to the 200-year-old Catholic church that then served local Catholics. His 52-year-old mother, Dorothy, and his father, Malachy, had been shot in an attack by loyalists – believed to be part of the notorious Glenanne gang – as they walked home through a local park on the evening on April 1st. Dorothy was killed; Malachy was shot three times. The funeral c

  5. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Mark Hennessy

    Drumcree: Where are we now and what happens next? (opens the original)

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    The Drumcree parade was never just about a parade. Not 30 years ago. Not today. Following the weekend’s drama in the courts and on streets and country roads in and around Portadown, the focus of most of the attention will move from there to Belfast, where Northern Ireland Secretary of State Chris Bryant will move centre stage. The Welsh politician is new to the job, and has come to it believing that he can make a difference. Equally, as he showed just a few weeks ago in Oxford when he spoke to

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