Update: Restrictions are placed on two Orange Order marches planned for July by the Parades Commission.
BBC News NI home affairs correspondentA parade scheduled to pass through Ardoyne in north Belfast on the evening of 12 July is no longer permitted.Earlier, it ruled a 3,000-person march on the Garvaghy Road in Portadown could go not ahead due to a potential impact on community relations.
The Ligoniel lodge was one of the parties to the agreement, in which "it undertook to instigate a voluntary moratorium" on applying for an evening parade.However, in its determination, the commission said it "understands the organiser expressed frustration with the outworking of the 2016 agreement."Thousands of Orange Order members will take part in marches next month
The commission ruling went on to state: "It threatens to undermine future efforts to manage parading in the area and endangers the continued development of positive cross-community relations." Each July the Portadown Orange Lodge attends a service at Drumcree Parish Church to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, which began on 1 July 1916.
The first decision to re-route it away from the Garvaghy Road was taken in 1995, however after a two-day stand-off Orange Order members were allowed to walk down it, unaccompanied by bands.
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