Éirígí spokesperson, Pádraic Mac Coitir, has called into question the motivation of those parties supportive of the so-called parades resolution in Ardoyne.

In a statement Mac Coitir said, “Those advocating an Orange Order parade in the Ardoyne area of Belfast

As dozens of masked paramilitary police decamped from armoured jeeps onto a Belfast street it could have been a scene from 1969, 1979 or 1989. But it wasn’t. Instead it was June 27th 2009 – the day of Britain’s inaugural ‘Armed Forces Day’.