A REPUBLICAN band may have breached a Parades Commission determination during an Easter Rising commemoration.
Conditions on music outside churches were imposed on a march organised by the North Belfast 1916 Easter Rising Centenary Committee on Sunday.
Up to 2,000 people participated including the Carrickhill Independent Flute Band. They walked from north to west Belfast to join the main Rising centenary parade which ended at Milltown Cemetery.
While on Donegall Street, the Parades Commission said no music other than a single drumbeat was to be played between North Queen Street and Union Street, the stretch that passes St Patrick's Church.
In addition, no music was to be played passing the Redeemer Central Church where there was a service in progress.
However, the band struck up momentarily and then continued with a single drum beat outside the church.
The determination appears to suggest no music was to be allowed at all, including a single drum beat.
Organisers could not be reached on Sunday night.
Loyalists had objected to Sunday's parade claiming some were offended by its presence on Royal Avenue, close to the site of the 1988 murder of two UDR soldiers.
