UK - Apprentice Boys Parade goes ahead

(10 Aug 1996) T/I: 10:55:00 GS: 10:18:53
Catholics in Londonderry (Derry) in Northern Ireland on Saturday (10/8) cancelled a protest rally, clearing the way for a peaceful Protestant parade. An announcement by the Bogside Residents Association, representing Catholics, was the last in a series of concessions by both
Catholics and Protestants that defused a potentially explosive situation. More than 15,000 Protestants converged on Londonderry from all over Northern Ireland for the annual Apprentice Boys Parade. The march, which commemorates the heroism of 13 apprentices who thwarted a Catholic attack on the city 300 years ago by locking its gates, now symbolises the determination of loyalists to resist all attempts by republicans to reunite Ireland.
SHOWS:
LONDONDERRY, NORTHERN IRELAND, UK 10/8
0.00 WS of armed police and police vehicles by city wall;
0.04 Armed police by armoured vehicle;
0.08 MS Apprentice Boys with Union Jack flag on wall;
0.12 Apprentice Boys raising flag;
0.16 WS of flags on city wall with "Peace or War? Not an Ounce"
graffiti;
0.20 WS of Apprentice Boys' march;
0.30 CA statue of soldier on war memorial;
0.32 Wreath laid at World War One and Two memorial;
0.40 Police blocking road as Apprentice Boys march round corner;
0.47 WS Catholics from Bogside area converging on wall;
0.51 PAN of Catholics meeting and deciding to cancel their
march;
0.57 WS of Apprentice Boys marching;
1.03 MS of Apprentice Boys marching with banners;
1.07 WS Apprentice Boys marching onto bridge;
1.15 ENDS
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