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Summary of Patrick Mayhew's meetings with Hugh Annesley, Robin Eames and Brendan McAllister on Drumcree on 4 July 1996

Writing Peace: The National Archives of the UK (TNA)

This document provides a record of meetings that Patrick Mayhew, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, had with Chief Constable Hugh Annelsey and Robin Eames, the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh, on 4 July 1996. Annelsey reported that there had been no communication between the local Orange Lodge and the Garvaghy Road residents, and that the local Orangemen had rejected RUC's [Royal Ulster Constabulary] idea of re-routing the march. He spoke of links between Billy Wright [leader in the Ulster Volunteer Force] and the Orange Order, and the Order's calls for marches on Monday and Tuesday in sensitive areas of Armagh as a way of putting pressure on the RUC. There was also the threat of severe unrest in Nationalist areas if the march was allowed to pass through. The Chief Constable outlined two options for how to proceed: forcing the march through Garvaghy Road, or blocking the return march close to Drumcree. Both options were likely to lead to unrest in Portadown and other areas of Northern Ireland, but Annesley said that he preferred the latter option, as choosing the first option would make it seem as if the RUC had given in to blackmail. After Mayhew's meeting with the Chief Constable, he met with Robin Eames. Eames told Mayhew that the local Orange Order had instructed the Portadown Lodge to meet with the Garvaghy Road residents, and that they were aiming to have a meeting soon. Eames said that there was a real chance that a compromise involving an alternative route could be brokered, if the meeting between the two sides could be arranged. He said that he thought it would be ideal if the RUC did not announce a decision on how they were going to deal with the stand-off in the meantime. The note also records a call that Martin Howard [Private Secretary to Mayhew] received from Brendan McAllister of the Mediation Network, who told Howard that he would have to report the undertaking that Deputy Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagan had given the previous year on how there would be no more marches in the areas where they were not accepted, as he had been subpoenaed in a case that was filed against the Secretary of State by the Garvaghy Road residents.

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May
07
1996
PREM 19/5713
87 1996 - 1996
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The National Archives of the UK (TNA), digitized by the Quill Project at https://quillproject.net/resource_collections/351/.