Alison Morris
speaker
340 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard yesterday
Alison Morris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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On the one side, the rights of a small number of people to march their traditional route, backed by a legal ruling.
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On the other side, a community which feels that that march is sectarian harassment and a relic of another age.
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A local issue but one with deep historical resonances and one which many fear has brought Northern Ireland to the political brink.
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Unionists accuse nationalists of not accepting the rule of law.
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Nationalists accuse unionists of unnecessarily opening an old wound.
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Let's bring you the latest from Portadown, from Stormont, and we'll try and make sense of all of that.
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I'm joined by Sam McBride in the studio, from Alison Morris on her way to Portadown, and we'll hear from Claire Dixon, our reporter, who's currently in Portadown, and by Andrew Madden, who's in Stormont.
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You're all very welcome to the Belltale.
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We are recording this at Monday lunchtime.
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Just to get a sense of what's happening now in Portadown and what happened overnight, let's hear from Claire Dixon.
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Well, Michelle O'Neill left the protest on the Garvahy Road shortly after midnight.
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She said it was a victory for the Garvahy Road community.
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And she said that the community does not want this march.
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Obviously, the Orange Men continued to make their case and attempted to walk down the road at 4am this morning.
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Alison, you were there in Portadown yesterday.
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It's a cliched question, but what was the atmosphere like?
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Well, that's what was happening on the Garvahy Road.
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That's one side of it.
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But we do know that the Orange Men, there were 35 Orange Men, they waited all day and they're still there waiting to, as they would say it, return home from their church service on their traditional route.
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A lot has been made about that, that there's merely 35 of them and we will return to that.
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