UK - Apprentice Boys Parade goes ahead

(10 Aug 1996) T/I: 10:38:18 Catholics in Londonderry (Derry) in Northern Ireland on Saturday (10/8) cancelled a protest rally, clearing the way for a peaceful Protestant parade. An announcement by the Bogside Residents Association, representing Catholics, was the last in a series of concessions by both Catholics and Protestants that defused a potentially explosive situation. Some of the two thousand Catholics who had been ready to demonstrate near the Potestant Apprentice Boys parade in the city centre began to move off. Others went to the city walls, leading to a standoff with police. Leaders of the Bogside Residents Association and Sinn Fein urged the Catholics to back away peacefully. The march commemorates the day three hundred years ago when thirteen apprentice boys thwarted a Catholic siege by locking the gates of the city. SHOWS: LONDONDERRY (DERRY), NORTHERN IRELAND, UK 10/8: WS of boats in harbour; Helicopter flying overhead; VS of march underway; Marchers marching over bridge; Apprentice Boys standing by side of road; More of march; Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) blocking off streets; Security cordoning off streets from marchers; British army soldiers standing by side of road; WS of catholics going to the march which has been cancelled; Bogside Residents Association spokesman, Donncha MacNiallias, congratulating everyone for the peaceful way they have conducted themselves; WS of crowd walking back up road; Catholic bogside residents stand-off under the city walls, being held back by RUC; MacNiallias asking the residents to give the resident's association some support and move off; Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein deputy leader, asking the crowd to stay calm and move off; WS of crowd in city square; 3.03 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...