22/05/2007
Parades body holds first meeting
Former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Paddy Ashdown is to meet with members of the new body set up to review parades in Northern Ireland today.
The Strategic Review Parading Body will hold its first meeting in Belfast and includes nationalist residents group spokesperson Sean Murray and Loyalist Commission Chairman Rev Mervyn Gibson.
First Minister Ian Paisley and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness will also join the review team.
Garvan O’Doherty, a businessman from Derry who played a key role in resolving a marching dispute in his city between nationalists and the Apprentice Boys, Mervyn Rankin, a former chief executive of Ballymena council, Sammy Douglas of the Belfast Interface Group and Geraldine McAteer of the West Belfast Partnership are among the members of the independent review.
The remit of the review team is to make recommendations on how parading can be taken forward in a way “consistent with the shared future objectives of respect, tolerance, responsible citizenship and promoting equality of opportunity and human rights.”
(JM/SP)
The Strategic Review Parading Body will hold its first meeting in Belfast and includes nationalist residents group spokesperson Sean Murray and Loyalist Commission Chairman Rev Mervyn Gibson.
First Minister Ian Paisley and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness will also join the review team.
Garvan O’Doherty, a businessman from Derry who played a key role in resolving a marching dispute in his city between nationalists and the Apprentice Boys, Mervyn Rankin, a former chief executive of Ballymena council, Sammy Douglas of the Belfast Interface Group and Geraldine McAteer of the West Belfast Partnership are among the members of the independent review.
The remit of the review team is to make recommendations on how parading can be taken forward in a way “consistent with the shared future objectives of respect, tolerance, responsible citizenship and promoting equality of opportunity and human rights.”
(JM/SP)
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