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People Power Forced Drumcree U-Turn

People Power Forced Drumcree U-Turn

"It didn’t come from the courts... Nor did it come from a Secretary of State... It came from the community... and thousands of ordinary people standing with them over the past two weeks. Working class communities organised from below forced every institution... to move."

9 Oct 2026

Richard Boyd Barrett and Paul Murphy Sign Letter to British Prime Minister - Stop Orange Order’s Sectarian Provocation on Garvaghy Road

Richard Boyd Barrett and Paul Murphy Sign Letter to British Prime Minister - Stop Orange Order’s Sectarian Provocation on Garvaghy Road

“The British Government must now finally do what it has failed to do so many times throughout our history - they must stop the Orange Order’s sectarian provocation and allow a return of peace to Garvaghy Road.”

8 Oct 2026

Carroll Receives Invite to PSNI Interview: “Standing Up for What’s Right is Never Wrong”

Carroll Receives Invite to PSNI Interview: “Standing Up for What’s Right is Never Wrong”

“I make no apology for standing with the residents of the Garvaghy Road. For almost three decades... When ordinary people peacefully stand together to defend their community, that is not criminality. It is the same civil disobedience that won every gain working-class people have ever made..."

8 Oct 2026

Carroll: Orange Order Should Read the Room and Walk Away

Carroll: Orange Order Should Read the Room and Walk Away

"There is no victory available here. 35 men walking a road where nobody wants them will not build a house, shorten a hospital waiting list or put a pound in anyone's pocket - in Portadown or anywhere else. The only thing it delivers is division"

5 Oct 2026

Carroll: West Belfast Rally to Stand with Garvaghy Road Residents

Carroll: West Belfast Rally to Stand with Garvaghy Road Residents

People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll will speak at a solidarity rally in west Belfast this evening, alongside Aamor Crofts (a resident of the Garvaghy Road) and Sinn Féin MLA Pat Sheehan.

1 Oct 2026

"Every elected representative on the Garvaghy Road was right to be there - First Minister included."

"Every elected representative on the Garvaghy Road was right to be there - First Minister included."

People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll, who stood with residents on the Garvaghy Road this weekend, calls out the hypocrisy of DUP who have flip-flopped between support for the Parades Commission to condemnation. Standing together is nothing to apologise for.

28 Sep 2026

Garvaghy Road Residents Have "Nothing left to compromise"

Garvaghy Road Residents Have "Nothing left to compromise"

Gerry Carroll MLA has rejected the Secretary of State's call for compromise on the Garvaghy Road. "There is no halfway house between a community's right to live in peace and an attempt to dominate it."

27 Sep 2026

People Power Stops Orange Order at Garvaghy - PBP Representatives Join Overnight Blockade

People Power Stops Orange Order at Garvaghy - PBP Representatives Join Overnight Blockade

Gerry Carroll MLA, Paul Murphy TD and Dublin City Councillor Conor Reddy stood with residents blocking the Garvaghy Road overnight, into Sunday morning. "We welcome the news that the Orangemen at Garvaghy have been ordered back to Drumcree Church. But nobody here is under any illusions."

27 Sep 2026

Garvaghy Decision a Shameful Capitulation to Unionist Pressure

Garvaghy Decision a Shameful Capitulation to Unionist Pressure

Carroll: "Residents of the Garvaghy Road are resilient people who simply want to live in peace. They deserved better than this determination and they won’t take it lying down. Both British and Irish governments have sat on their hands. They should still act to prevent this march from going ahead."

25 Sep 2026