The annual Drumcee Orange parade in Portadown, Co Armagh has passed without incident today.
The parade has been banned from proceeding down the town’s nationalist Garvaghy road since 1998.
Yesterday, the North’s First Minister Peter Robinson offered to meet Orangemen and nationalist residents over the long-running dispute.
The parade was again prohibited from the Garvaghy Road, maintaining the policy of refusing permission for the Portadown lodge of the Orange Order to return to its lodge through the nationalist area in the absence of a locally agreed accommodation.
Mr Robinson said common sense should find a solution to the dispute which has in the past sparked serious violent disturbances across the North.
Mr Robinson said today he had written to both the Orange District and residents’ “in good faith and I hope that they will feel able to respond in a positive manner.
“By demonstrating a common sense approach, I am certain that we can find a way through on this issue.
“I will do all I can to help progress this matter to a consensual conclusion but I would be equally content if in the preliminary discussions the two parties agree on some other approach or arrangement which might reach the outcome that everyone in Portadown and indeed throughout Northern Ireland wishes to see.”
A spokesman for the Garvaghy Road Residents’ Coalition (GRRC) has said his request had been accepted and a meeting would take place later next week.