easter commemoration

REPUBLICANS gathered in west and north Belfast yesterday for their traditional Easter Tuesday commemorations.

Dissident republicans have been urged not to press ahead with a planned actual Easter Monday commemoration in Derry which was announced yesterday.

DISSIDENT republican group Saoradh will hold its Easter commemoration online, making it three years since such an event has taken place in Derry.

POLICE have urged organisers of a dissident republican Easter commemoration in Derry to lodge an application with the Parades’ Commission to avoid a PSNI presence at the event.

A MAN charged with taking part in an illegal republican parade claims a ban on contacting co-accused breaches his human rights, the High Court has heard.

DISSIDENT republicans threw petrol bombs at police during an illegal Easter Monday commemoration in Derry yesterday.

IRISH unity cannot be a case of "changing one flag for another", éirígí has said.

IT IS to be hoped that a statement delivered by a spokesman for a dissident-linked group in Belfast during an Easter commemoration event will lead to a move away from violence by one of the organisations up until now engaged in attacks on police and members of the public.

Individuals who breached Parades Commission rules at Easter commemoration marches across the north will be pursued through the courts, according to Assistant Chief Constable Stephen Martin.