A REPUBLICAN parade held before the unveiling of a plaque in memory of the 1916 Easter Rising attracted a heavy police presence.
It was the fifth march this year organised by the North Belfast Easter Rising 2016 Commemorative Committee.
Three bands and about 300 participants set off from Ardoyne Avenue and made their way to Stanhope Street on Sunday afternoon.
The Parades Commission had noted that there had been just one republican parade to follow such a route, which involved walking through Carlisle Circus and Clifton Street, in the past decade.
Organisers agreed to play just a single drum beat from St Malachy's College on Antrim Road until they reached the junction of Clifton Street and Stanhope Street.
A loyalist protest by a group calling itself End the Glorification of Terrorism was held with organisers saying they "object to sectarian attacks on Orange halls and lack of respect for them".
The large police presence was similar to previous republican parades in the area.
The Irish News revealed last week that more than a tenth of the entire PSNI was deployed to police a small republican parade in north Belfast last year.
Figures obtained by the Irish News reveal that 774 officers policed the Henry Joy McCracken commemoration parade - resulting in a £182,000 overtime bill.
The operation has been on a similar scale in other years, with more than 600 officers involved in 2014 and 779 the year before that.
In 2013 the bill for overtime topped £250,000.
Last month just over 500 officers policed the parade, which involved only around 200 marchers and 100 loyalist protesters.
This year's parade took place on Sunday August 28 passed off peacefully amid the heavy police presence and restrictions imposed by the Parades Commission.
