The annual Orange Order Drumcree parade, which takes place on Sunday, has again been banned by the North's Parades Commission from the nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown.
On Sunday Portadown Orangemen will again seek to parade from Drumcree Church after their Battle of the Somme church service on to the Garvaghy Road, but again will be blocked by a PSNI barrier at Drumcree bridge.
Nationalists welcomed the decision while Orange sources privately acknowledged that no other decision was expected.
The PSNI is planning to mount a low-key security operation on Sunday to reflect the security, political, Orange and nationalist view that unlike the mid- to late- 1990s Drumcree is no longer a flashpoint parade.
David Burrows, a former senior figure in the Orange Order in Portadown, who is on the commission, took no part in the determination, the commission said yesterday.
Local Sinn Féin Assembly member John O'Dowd said the determination was the only logical decision the commission could take.
"The continued refusal of Portadown Orangemen to negotiate routes and venues of parades needs to be the continued focus of the commission, not a political agenda of the Northern Ireland Office," he said.
"The commission must also recognise that the long-term solution may well be that there is no future march along the Garvaghy Road by the Orange Order," added Mr O'Dowd.
SDLP MLA Dolores Kelly said: "It is the right decision and the only decision in the absence of prolonged or sustained dialogue with the nationalist community. Future determinations must respect the views of the wider nationalist community in this area."
