Caller Alan questions why taxpayers' money should be spent on policing the Protest camp at Twaddell

Sep 13, 2013, 08:55 AM

The loyalist protest camp that's refusing to budge. Loyalists at Twaddell Avenue say they won't move until the disputed Orange parade goes through. Will marching disputes ever get sorted out? We will stay here until we finish our parade. That's the message coming from loyalists and the Orange Order in North Belfast. It's been two months since a Parades Commission determination stopped the North Belfast Orange lodges returning past Ardoyne on the Twelfth. Since that day protestors have manned what they're calling a civil rights camp at Twadell Avenue. The protest site, which houses a caravan and a cabin is based next to the Ardoyne roundabout and is manned 24 hours a day. Those in the camp have vowed to stay there for as long as they say is needed.