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Guardian counts hundreds blocking Garvaghy Road; TheJournal.ie and Morning Star say thousands

The Orange Order was cleared to march Portadown's Garvaghy Road for the first time since 1998. Residents, and Sinn Féin's leaders, stood in the road. The reports agree on that. They do not agree on how many stood there, or on who gave the permission.

Tense standoff over loyalist march in Portadown as protesters block route
Tense standoff over loyalist march in Portadown as protesters block route as published by The Guardian · seen at The Guardian
Anglosphere United Kingdom Ireland

What happened. The Parades Commission let the Drumcree parade use Garvaghy Road, a mainly nationalist road in Portadown. The route has been banned since 1998. A late-night High Court sitting in Belfast left the permission standing. Protesters blocked the road from Saturday night, and the march stalled all Sunday.

How many were there. No report says who counted.

Outlet Crowd
The Guardian "Hundreds of protesters"
TheJournal.ie "Thousands"; earlier "a large crowd"
Morning Star "Thousands of protesters"
The Irish Times, RTÉ no number

Who cleared it. The accounts fit together, but each names one link. The Guardian names the Parades Commission. CBC and the Morning Star name the High Court. TheJournal.ie says the court upheld the commission. The Irish Times says an injunction was dismissed on appeal.

Who spoke. Taoiseach Micheál Martin called the decision "incomprehensible and wrong", RTÉ and TheJournal.ie report. Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald called it "madness". DUP leader Gavin Robinson said First Minister Michelle O'Neill, on the road, was "breaking the law". Prime Minister Andy Burnham asked for "calm on all sides", CBC and the Morning Star report.

Not settled. Whether the march happened at all. The Irish Times says police told the Order at 7.35am to prepare, then called it off ten minutes later. No report we hold quotes the Orange Order or a named resident. We do not know the crowd's size.

What this is. A Protestant marching order has won the right to walk down a Catholic street in Northern Ireland. That street was the scene of the worst parading standoffs of the 1990s.

How it got here. The Orange Order is a Protestant fraternal body. It supports Northern Ireland staying in the United Kingdom. Each summer its lodges march. In Portadown, County Armagh, one lodge walks from Drumcree church back to town. Its old route ran along Garvaghy Road, a mainly Catholic, nationalist area. In the mid-1990s residents blocked it. The result was years of confrontation, rioting and large police operations. The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 largely ended the Troubles; the Morning Star puts that conflict's toll at 3,600 dead. Since 1998 the Garvaghy Road leg has been banned. The Irish Times says the lodge applied every year and was refused 27 times.

What changed. The Parades Commission is the statutory body that rules on contested parades. This year it refused again. The lodge took it to judicial review. The judge ruled, the Irish Times reports, that the application had been refused by rote. The commission reconsidered and granted a slimmed march: 35 people, no bands. A challenge to that failed in the High Court overnight.

Who is in it. Northern Ireland is run by a power-sharing executive. Sinn Féin, which wants a united Ireland, holds the First Minister's post through Michelle O'Neill. The DUP, the largest unionist party, is its partner. The PSNI polices the parade. London's Northern Ireland Secretary, Chris Bryant, has powers over parades; McDonald asked him to ban this one. Dublin has a formal voice on Northern Ireland under the 1998 agreement.

What is at stake. The Irish Times says the dispute could threaten the Stormont institutions. The DUP wants sanctions on ministers who joined the blockade. Sinn Féin says the march drags the road "back into the past".

Where it stands. On Sunday afternoon the march had not passed. Both Armagh archbishops, Catholic and Church of Ireland, jointly called for an urgent initiative to resolve it.

What is being argued about

  • Whether hundreds or thousands blocked Garvaghy Road — no report says who counted
  • Why a route banned since 1998 was reopened: a judicial review found the commission had refused by rote
  • Whether the First Minister broke the law by joining the blockade, as the DUP says
  • Whether the dispute threatens power-sharing at Stormont
How many blocked Garvaghy Road? Five reports, three answersChart
None of these reports says who made the count.
Sources The Guardian
Centre-left estimate · not a score
The Guardian 🇬🇧UK · newspaper · independent Tense standoff over loyalist march in Portadown as protesters block route Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Guardian → What we have measured Actor named Denial in the passive voice, with no one named as the person who dismissed it ×1Actor named names Israel as acting and states the death toll flat, with no source ×1Actor named Ireland named as the side that ended the conference ×1Allegation omitted the police statement is cut with an ellipsis where the other two reports carry the controlling or coercive behaviour allegation ×1 from 10552 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Michelle O’Neill accused of ‘breaking the law’ on Garvaghy Road Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → M Morning Star
Left estimate · not a score
Morning Star 🇬🇧UK · digital · Tensions run high in Northern Ireland after contentious march given green light Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Morning Star → What we have measured Anyone hurt counted the only report that carries a civilian death; the person is counted, not named ×1Anyone hurt counted Moscow region dead given by age and sex, attributed to the regional governor ×1A speaker's epithet carried in the reporter's "sugar daddies" used to describe the donors outside the quotation ×1Asserted flat, not attributed a contested political claim written as an established fact ×1 from 876 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T The Irish Times
Centre estimate · not a score
The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · Decades after flashpoints of the 1990s, Drumcree is just as dangerous Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Irish Times → What we have measured Actor framing The release is framed as a joint agreement, with no pressure mentioned ×1Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road ×1Actor named killers named as 'loyalist gunmen'; verb 'shot dead' ×1With no actor named construction no actor named for the theft or the driving in the standfirst ×1 from 1358 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC Orange Order march delayed as Garvaghy road blocked Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2361 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
Who cleared the march — each outlet names one link in the chainSide by side
OutletWhat it said cleared the marchCrowd
The Guardian"go-ahead by the Parades Commission""Hundreds"
TheJournal.ieCommission ruling "upheld" in a late-night High Court sitting"Thousands"
CBC News"the High Court in Belfast in a late-night sitting"no number
Morning Star"the High Court in Belfast in a late-night sitting""Thousands"
The Irish Times"injunction dismissed on appeal"no number
These accounts do not contradict each other: the commission granted the march and the court let the decision stand.
Sources The Guardian
Centre-left estimate · not a score
The Guardian 🇬🇧UK · newspaper · independent Tense standoff over loyalist march in Portadown as protesters block route Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Guardian → What we have measured Actor named Denial in the passive voice, with no one named as the person who dismissed it ×1Actor named names Israel as acting and states the death toll flat, with no source ×1Actor named Ireland named as the side that ended the conference ×1Allegation omitted the police statement is cut with an ellipsis where the other two reports carry the controlling or coercive behaviour allegation ×1 from 10552 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Michelle O’Neill accused of ‘breaking the law’ on Garvaghy Road Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → C CBC News
Centre-left estimate · not a score
CBC News 🇨🇦CA · public broadcaster · public-service Tensions run high in Northern Ireland after contentious march given go-ahead Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at CBC News → What we have measured Asserted vs attributed the measure is attributed to the three governments; the territory is called occupied in the outlet's own voice ×1Attribution kept in the headline the sourcing travels with the claim into the headline ×1Figure rounded in the headline more than 600 in the headline; the body sources it to a flight-tracking site ×1How the sourcing is hedged the claim is hedged to an unnamed newspaper in both headline and body; the reporting is not held by this report ×1 from 2730 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → M Morning Star
Left estimate · not a score
Morning Star 🇬🇧UK · digital · Tensions run high in Northern Ireland after contentious march given green light Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Morning Star → What we have measured Anyone hurt counted the only report that carries a civilian death; the person is counted, not named ×1Anyone hurt counted Moscow region dead given by age and sex, attributed to the regional governor ×1A speaker's epithet carried in the reporter's "sugar daddies" used to describe the donors outside the quotation ×1Asserted flat, not attributed a contested political claim written as an established fact ×1 from 876 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T The Irish Times
Centre estimate · not a score
The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · Loyalist parade in Northern Ireland given go-ahead after almost 30-year ban Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Irish Times → What we have measured Actor framing The release is framed as a joint agreement, with no pressure mentioned ×1Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road ×1Actor named killers named as 'loyalist gunmen'; verb 'shot dead' ×1With no actor named construction no actor named for the theft or the driving in the standfirst ×1 from 1358 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
Sunday on Garvaghy RoadTimeline
  1. 2026-09-2706:21 published RTÉ News Garvaghy Road residents block the road; march delayed
  2. 2026-09-2706:38 published The Irish Times March cleared after injunction dismissed on appeal first in 28 years
  3. 2026-09-2707:35 local time, as The Irish Times reports it PSNI Tells the Order to prepare to march, then 10 minutes later says it cannot: too many protesters
  4. 2026-09-2707:40 published Micheál Martin, Taoiseach Original decision "incomprehensible and wrong" (TheJournal.ie)
  5. 2026-09-2711:16 published Micheál Martin, Taoiseach Calls for "calm on all sides" (RTÉ)
  6. 2026-09-2713:51 published Andy Burnham, prime minister Calls for "calm on all sides" (Morning Star)
  7. 2026-09-2714:53 published Gavin Robinson, DUP Says O'Neill is "breaking the law" (TheJournal.ie)
  8. 2026-09-2716:09 published Archbishops Eamon Martin and John McDowell Jointly call for an urgent reconciling initiative (TheJournal.ie)
Report times are when each was published, in UTC. Irish time is one hour ahead.
Sources R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC Orange Order march delayed as Garvaghy road blocked Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2361 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T The Irish Times
Centre estimate · not a score
The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · Loyalist parade in Northern Ireland given go-ahead after almost 30-year ban Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Irish Times → What we have measured Actor framing The release is framed as a joint agreement, with no pressure mentioned ×1Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road ×1Actor named killers named as 'loyalist gunmen'; verb 'shot dead' ×1With no actor named construction no actor named for the theft or the driving in the standfirst ×1 from 1358 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T The Irish Times
Centre estimate · not a score
The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · Decades after flashpoints of the 1990s, Drumcree is just as dangerous Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Irish Times → What we have measured Actor framing The release is framed as a joint agreement, with no pressure mentioned ×1Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road ×1Actor named killers named as 'loyalist gunmen'; verb 'shot dead' ×1With no actor named construction no actor named for the theft or the driving in the standfirst ×1 from 1358 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Orange Order Drumcree march delayed as large crowd of protesters gather to stop parade Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC Taoiseach appeals for 'calm on all sides' in Portadown Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2361 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → M Morning Star
Left estimate · not a score
Morning Star 🇬🇧UK · digital · Tensions run high in Northern Ireland after contentious march given green light Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Morning Star → What we have measured Anyone hurt counted the only report that carries a civilian death; the person is counted, not named ×1Anyone hurt counted Moscow region dead given by age and sex, attributed to the regional governor ×1A speaker's epithet carried in the reporter's "sugar daddies" used to describe the donors outside the quotation ×1Asserted flat, not attributed a contested political claim written as an established fact ×1 from 876 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Michelle O’Neill accused of ‘breaking the law’ on Garvaghy Road Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Catholic and Protestant archbishops jointly urge resolution to Drumcree 'crisis' Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
The bias in this coverageBias

Hundreds, thousands, or 'a large crowd'

Reports on the same blockade gave different sizes, and none says who made the count. One says hundreds, two say thousands, and one gives no number. The size of the crowd is the fact we are least sure of.

1 reports saying hundreds 2 reports saying thousands 1 reports giving no number

Motive: attributed or asserted

Most reports put each side's case in its leaders' mouths. Two reports state motives in their own voice. One gives a motive to one side only; the other gives motives to both parties.

1 reports asserting a motive to one side only 1 reports asserting motives to both sides
Scored without the mastheads. Where the two passes differ, both are kept.
Sources The Guardian
Centre-left estimate · not a score
The Guardian 🇬🇧UK · newspaper · independent Tense standoff over loyalist march in Portadown as protesters block route Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Guardian → What we have measured Actor named Denial in the passive voice, with no one named as the person who dismissed it ×1Actor named names Israel as acting and states the death toll flat, with no source ×1Actor named Ireland named as the side that ended the conference ×1Allegation omitted the police statement is cut with an ellipsis where the other two reports carry the controlling or coercive behaviour allegation ×1 from 10552 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Catholic and Protestant archbishops jointly urge resolution to Drumcree 'crisis' Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Michelle O’Neill accused of ‘breaking the law’ on Garvaghy Road Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T The Irish Times
Centre estimate · not a score
The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · Decades after flashpoints of the 1990s, Drumcree is just as dangerous Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Irish Times → What we have measured Actor framing The release is framed as a joint agreement, with no pressure mentioned ×1Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road ×1Actor named killers named as 'loyalist gunmen'; verb 'shot dead' ×1With no actor named construction no actor named for the theft or the driving in the standfirst ×1 from 1358 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T The Irish Times
Centre estimate · not a score
The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · PSNI tells Orange Order not to march down Garvaghy Road amid blockade by protesters Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Irish Times → What we have measured Actor framing The release is framed as a joint agreement, with no pressure mentioned ×1Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road ×1Actor named killers named as 'loyalist gunmen'; verb 'shot dead' ×1With no actor named construction no actor named for the theft or the driving in the standfirst ×1 from 1358 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T The Irish Times
Centre estimate · not a score
The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · Loyalist parade in Northern Ireland given go-ahead after almost 30-year ban Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Irish Times → What we have measured Actor framing The release is framed as a joint agreement, with no pressure mentioned ×1Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road ×1Actor named killers named as 'loyalist gunmen'; verb 'shot dead' ×1With no actor named construction no actor named for the theft or the driving in the standfirst ×1 from 1358 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Orange Order Drumcree march delayed as large crowd of protesters gather to stop parade Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC Orange Order march delayed as Garvaghy road blocked Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2361 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC How the morning unfolded on the Garvaghy Road Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2361 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC Taoiseach appeals for 'calm on all sides' in Portadown Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2361 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → C CBC News
Centre-left estimate · not a score
CBC News 🇨🇦CA · public broadcaster · public-service Tensions run high in Northern Ireland after contentious march given go-ahead Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at CBC News → What we have measured Asserted vs attributed the measure is attributed to the three governments; the territory is called occupied in the outlet's own voice ×1Attribution kept in the headline the sourcing travels with the claim into the headline ×1Figure rounded in the headline more than 600 in the headline; the body sources it to a flight-tracking site ×1How the sourcing is hedged the claim is hedged to an unnamed newspaper in both headline and body; the reporting is not held by this report ×1 from 2730 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → M Morning Star
Left estimate · not a score
Morning Star 🇬🇧UK · digital · Tensions run high in Northern Ireland after contentious march given green light Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Morning Star → What we have measured Anyone hurt counted the only report that carries a civilian death; the person is counted, not named ×1Anyone hurt counted Moscow region dead given by age and sex, attributed to the regional governor ×1A speaker's epithet carried in the reporter's "sugar daddies" used to describe the donors outside the quotation ×1Asserted flat, not attributed a contested political claim written as an established fact ×1 from 876 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → M Morning Star
Left estimate · not a score
Morning Star 🇬🇧UK · digital · Why the Garvaghy Road crisis matters for both Britain and Ireland Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Morning Star → What we have measured Anyone hurt counted the only report that carries a civilian death; the person is counted, not named ×1Anyone hurt counted Moscow region dead given by age and sex, attributed to the regional governor ×1A speaker's epithet carried in the reporter's "sugar daddies" used to describe the donors outside the quotation ×1Asserted flat, not attributed a contested political claim written as an established fact ×1 from 876 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Claims and verdicts

true The Orange Order's Drumcree parade was cleared to march along Garvaghy Road for the first time since 1998, after the High Court in Belfast upheld the Parades Commission's decision in a late-night sitting.
The Guardian, The Irish Times, TheJournal.ie, CBC News and the Morning Star each report the clearance and the late-night court hearing, and put the last permitted march around 1998 or almost 30 years ago. One TheJournal.ie headline says 'since 1997', but its main report says the parade has been banned since 1998, and no report disputes the court ruling.
Checked against 5 sources:
The Guardian
Centre-left estimate · not a score
The Guardian 🇬🇧UK · newspaper · independent Tense standoff over loyalist march in Portadown as protesters block route Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Guardian → What we have measured Actor named Denial in the passive voice, with no one named as the person who dismissed it ×1Actor named names Israel as acting and states the death toll flat, with no source ×1Actor named Ireland named as the side that ended the conference ×1Allegation omitted the police statement is cut with an ellipsis where the other two reports carry the controlling or coercive behaviour allegation ×1 from 10552 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T The Irish Times
Centre estimate · not a score
The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · Loyalist parade in Northern Ireland given go-ahead after almost 30-year ban Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Irish Times → What we have measured Actor framing The release is framed as a joint agreement, with no pressure mentioned ×1Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road ×1Actor named killers named as 'loyalist gunmen'; verb 'shot dead' ×1With no actor named construction no actor named for the theft or the driving in the standfirst ×1 from 1358 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Michelle O’Neill accused of ‘breaking the law’ on Garvaghy Road Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → C CBC News
Centre-left estimate · not a score
CBC News 🇨🇦CA · public broadcaster · public-service Tensions run high in Northern Ireland after contentious march given go-ahead Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at CBC News → What we have measured Asserted vs attributed the measure is attributed to the three governments; the territory is called occupied in the outlet's own voice ×1Attribution kept in the headline the sourcing travels with the claim into the headline ×1Figure rounded in the headline more than 600 in the headline; the body sources it to a flight-tracking site ×1How the sourcing is hedged the claim is hedged to an unnamed newspaper in both headline and body; the reporting is not held by this report ×1 from 2730 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → M Morning Star
Left estimate · not a score
Morning Star 🇬🇧UK · digital · Tensions run high in Northern Ireland after contentious march given green light Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Morning Star → What we have measured Anyone hurt counted the only report that carries a civilian death; the person is counted, not named ×1Anyone hurt counted Moscow region dead given by age and sex, attributed to the regional governor ×1A speaker's epithet carried in the reporter's "sugar daddies" used to describe the donors outside the quotation ×1Asserted flat, not attributed a contested political claim written as an established fact ×1 from 876 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
disputed Thousands of protesters blocked the Garvaghy Road route.
TheJournal.ie and the Morning Star say thousands, but The Guardian says hundreds. The Irish Times and RTÉ give no number.
Checked against 3 sources:
T TheJournal.ie
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TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Michelle O’Neill accused of ‘breaking the law’ on Garvaghy Road Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → M Morning Star
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Morning Star 🇬🇧UK · digital · Tensions run high in Northern Ireland after contentious march given green light Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Morning Star → What we have measured Anyone hurt counted the only report that carries a civilian death; the person is counted, not named ×1Anyone hurt counted Moscow region dead given by age and sex, attributed to the regional governor ×1A speaker's epithet carried in the reporter's "sugar daddies" used to describe the donors outside the quotation ×1Asserted flat, not attributed a contested political claim written as an established fact ×1 from 876 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Guardian
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The Guardian 🇬🇧UK · newspaper · independent Tense standoff over loyalist march in Portadown as protesters block route Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Guardian → What we have measured Actor named Denial in the passive voice, with no one named as the person who dismissed it ×1Actor named names Israel as acting and states the death toll flat, with no source ×1Actor named Ireland named as the side that ended the conference ×1Allegation omitted the police statement is cut with an ellipsis where the other two reports carry the controlling or coercive behaviour allegation ×1 from 10552 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
true First Minister Michelle O'Neill was among the protesters on Garvaghy Road.
TheJournal.ie and the Morning Star both place O'Neill on the road, and the Morning Star quotes her from there. The Guardian says Sinn Féin leaders joined the protest, and The Irish Times carries a DUP accusation about the First Minister in the same standoff.
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T TheJournal.ie
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TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Michelle O’Neill accused of ‘breaking the law’ on Garvaghy Road Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → M Morning Star
Left estimate · not a score
Morning Star 🇬🇧UK · digital · Tensions run high in Northern Ireland after contentious march given green light Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Morning Star → What we have measured Anyone hurt counted the only report that carries a civilian death; the person is counted, not named ×1Anyone hurt counted Moscow region dead given by age and sex, attributed to the regional governor ×1A speaker's epithet carried in the reporter's "sugar daddies" used to describe the donors outside the quotation ×1Asserted flat, not attributed a contested political claim written as an established fact ×1 from 876 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → M Morning Star
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Morning Star 🇬🇧UK · digital · Why the Garvaghy Road crisis matters for both Britain and Ireland Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Morning Star → What we have measured Anyone hurt counted the only report that carries a civilian death; the person is counted, not named ×1Anyone hurt counted Moscow region dead given by age and sex, attributed to the regional governor ×1A speaker's epithet carried in the reporter's "sugar daddies" used to describe the donors outside the quotation ×1Asserted flat, not attributed a contested political claim written as an established fact ×1 from 876 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Guardian
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The Guardian 🇬🇧UK · newspaper · independent Tense standoff over loyalist march in Portadown as protesters block route Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Guardian → What we have measured Actor named Denial in the passive voice, with no one named as the person who dismissed it ×1Actor named names Israel as acting and states the death toll flat, with no source ×1Actor named Ireland named as the side that ended the conference ×1Allegation omitted the police statement is cut with an ellipsis where the other two reports carry the controlling or coercive behaviour allegation ×1 from 10552 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Who wrote it

M Mark Hennessy The Irish Times
What the bias passes found in their reporting
Asserted not attributed police judgement called unaccountable without a source×1
Community labels one side is labelled by religion, the other by politics×1
How the residents are named named by their road×1
Labels for the two sides one side is labelled by religion, the other by politics×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
2 true
From 13 reports we hold under this byline, at The Irish Times. Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating. Their full record →
E Emma Hickey TheJournal.ie
What the bias passes found in their reporting
Actor named The government is named as the actor that accepted the recommendation. The parents are not mentioned×1
Actor named names the government as the one that chose×1
Asserted flat Calls the chair unpopular without attributing it×1
Figure attributed Gives the crowd size and attributes it to the protesting group×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
1 unverified4 true
From 84 reports we hold under this byline, at TheJournal.ie. Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating. Their full record →
L Lisa O’Carroll The Guardian · 2 reports on this story
What the bias passes found in their reporting
Crowd size Counts the blockade as 'hundreds'. Another report on the same morning says 'thousands'.×1
Crowd size hundreds×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
1 disputed2 true
From 45 reports we hold under this byline, at The Guardian, The Irish Times. Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating. Their full record →
M Mark Brown The Guardian
What the bias passes found in their reporting
Crowd size Counts the blockade as 'hundreds'. Another report on the same morning says 'thousands'.×1
Crowd size hundreds×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
1 disputed2 true
From 13 reports we hold under this byline, at The Guardian. Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating. Their full record →
S Shane Harrison The Guardian
What the bias passes found in their reporting
Crowd size Counts the blockade as 'hundreds'. Another report on the same morning says 'thousands'.×1
Crowd size hundreds×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
1 disputed2 true
From 2 reports we hold under this byline, at The Guardian. Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating. Their full record →
B Ben Chacko Morning Star
What the bias passes found in their reporting
Asserted flat, not attributed a contested political claim written as an established fact×1
Asserted not attributed motive of the march stated as fact×1
Asserted or attributed genocide asserted in the outlet's own voice×1
Asserted vs attributed the donors are characterised flat, unattributed, in the opening clause×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
1 unverified2 true
From 40 reports we hold under this byline, at Morning Star. Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating. Their full record →
R Roger McKenzie Morning Star
No independent reading has coded a report under this byline yet. We do not infer a journalist's views from the outlet that employs them.
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
1 disputed2 true
From 99 reports we hold under this byline, at Morning Star. Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating. Their full record →
M Maggie Doyle RTÉ News
No independent reading has coded a report under this byline yet. We do not infer a journalist's views from the outlet that employs them.
From 7 reports we hold under this byline, at RTÉ News. Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating. Their full record →
S Stephen Conneely The Irish Times
No independent reading has coded a report under this byline yet. We do not infer a journalist's views from the outlet that employs them.
From 8 reports we hold under this byline, at The Irish Times. Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating. Their full record →
H Harry Taylor The Irish Times
No independent reading has coded a report under this byline yet. We do not infer a journalist's views from the outlet that employs them.
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
1 true
From 21 reports we hold under this byline, at The Independent, The Guardian, The Irish Times. Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating. Their full record →
The bylines on the reports this story is built from. Hover one for what our passes have measured on their reporting. · 5 reports we hold carry no byline — we do not invent one.

Coverage, outlet by outlet

T The Irish Times
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The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · Decades after flashpoints of the 1990s, Drumcree is just as dangerous Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Irish Times → What we have measured Actor framing The release is framed as a joint agreement, with no pressure mentioned ×1Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road ×1Actor named killers named as 'loyalist gunmen'; verb 'shot dead' ×1With no actor named construction no actor named for the theft or the driving in the standfirst ×1 from 1358 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → —
Explains the legal route: 27 refusals, a judicial review, a march cut to 35 people with no bands. Says police told the commission a parade posed no public-order threat.
For a generation of politicians, journalists and others, the Drumcree parades crisis of the 1990s was a bitter, often deeply unpleasant chapter that had been filed away, often as a bad memory best forgotten. But it was never forgotten by Loyal Orange Lodge No 1 on Carleton Street in the town, which still carries many of the divisions of the Troubles. Each Sunday since 1998 they held a token protest at Drumcree church on the hill to complain about being barred from marching on the Garvaghy Road. Each year, the lodge submitted an application to march on the Sunday before the Twelfth of July on t
Motive stated flat: Gives party motives as fact, without attribution. It does this for both sides: it also says marching rows mobilise Sinn Féin's base. — “The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is maintaining a hard line because defending the right to march goes down well with its membership”
Asserted not attributed: police judgement called unaccountable without a source — “Its decision to tell the Parades Commission that it did not believe that a parade this year would threaten public order is hard to fathom.”
Read it at The Irish Times → https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/09/27/decades-after-flashpoints…
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CBC News 🇨🇦CA · public broadcaster · public-service Tensions run high in Northern Ireland after contentious march given go-ahead Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at CBC News → What we have measured Asserted vs attributed the measure is attributed to the three governments; the territory is called occupied in the outlet's own voice ×1Attribution kept in the headline the sourcing travels with the claim into the headline ×1Figure rounded in the headline more than 600 in the headline; the body sources it to a flight-tracking site ×1How the sourcing is hedged the claim is hedged to an unnamed newspaper in both headline and body; the reporting is not held by this report ×1 from 2730 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — public-service
Leads with Andy Burnham's call for calm and credits the High Court with the go-ahead.
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham called for calm in Northern Ireland on Sunday after a contentious parade was given the go-ahead by the High Court in Belfast in a late-night sitting.
Read it at CBC News → https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/northern-ireland-orange-order-march-9.736…
T TheJournal.ie
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TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Catholic and Protestant archbishops jointly urge resolution to Drumcree 'crisis' Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → —
Carries the joint statement of the Catholic and Church of Ireland archbishops of Armagh calling for an urgent reconciling initiative.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more. The two Armagh archbishops, Catholic Archbishop Eamon Martin and Church of Ireland Archbishop John McDowell, released a joint statement as a stand-off on Garvaghy Road in Portadown shows no sign of abating. A planned Orange Order march on the predominantly nationalist road has stalled for hours after a large crowd of protesters, including multiple Dáil TDs, gathered in the area to prevent the parade going ahead. The Drumcree parade, which was associated with violent clashes during the Troubles, has been banned since 1998.
Read it at TheJournal.ie → https://www.thejournal.ie/drumcree-parade-stand-off-archbishops-7175074…
The Guardian
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The Guardian 🇬🇧UK · newspaper · independent Tense standoff over loyalist march in Portadown as protesters block route Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Guardian → What we have measured Actor named Denial in the passive voice, with no one named as the person who dismissed it ×1Actor named names Israel as acting and states the death toll flat, with no source ×1Actor named Ireland named as the side that ended the conference ×1Allegation omitted the police statement is cut with an ellipsis where the other two reports carry the controlling or coercive behaviour allegation ×1 from 10552 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — independent
Counts "hundreds" of protesters and says Sinn Féin leaders joined them.
Hundreds of protesters spent the day blocking the route of a hugely contentious parade in Northern Ireland after a court gave late-night clearance for the Orange Order to march on a historically significant road for the first time in nearly 30 years. The loyalist Drumcree parade along the mainly nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown was given the go-ahead by the Parades Commission for the first time since 1998, a decision denounced by Sinn Féin as “madness”.
Crowd size: Counts the blockade as 'hundreds'. Another report on the same morning says 'thousands'. — “Hundreds of protesters spent the day blocking the route of a hugely contentious parade in Northern Ireland”
Crowd size: hundreds — “Hundreds of protesters spent the day blocking the route”
Read it at The Guardian → https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/27/tense-standoff-loyalist…
T TheJournal.ie
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TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Michelle O’Neill accused of ‘breaking the law’ on Garvaghy Road Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → —
Gives Gavin Robinson's case at length: ministers "acting as lawbreakers", calls for investigation and sanctions. Describes protesters as "many of them wearing balaclavas".
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more. DUP leader Gavin Robinson claimed “standards have been shattered” and said they will engage with Secretary of State Chris Bryant about “how we can go forward when there is such a level of disdain for the simple fundamental democratic principles of society”. “We have lawmakers acting as lawbreakers and they need to face the consequences for their actions. “We can’t have a situation where people who have the privilege of holding high office in Northern Ireland so flagrantly disregard the pledge of office and statutory underp
Crowd size: Counts the blockade as 'thousands' and says who counted: nobody. — “Thousands of protesters have blocked the predominately nationalist route in Portadown”
Voice order: The unionist leader is quoted first and at the greatest length. The residents' side comes in only after the related-reads break. — “We have lawmakers acting as lawbreakers and they need to face the consequences for their actions.”
Description of one side: Describes the protesters by their face coverings. The marchers get no matching physical description. — “Protesters, many of them wearing balaclavas, clustered in large groups in heavy rain along the road on Sunday morning”
Crowd size: thousands — “Thousands of protesters have blocked the predominately nationalist route”
First voice quoted: DUP leader quoted first and at length; Sinn Féin president quoted later — “We have lawmakers acting as lawbreakers and they need to face the consequences for their actions.”
Descriptor of protesters: face coverings foregrounded — “Protesters, many of them wearing balaclavas, clustered in large groups in heavy rain along the road on Sunday morning”
Read it at TheJournal.ie → https://www.thejournal.ie/michelle-oneill-garvaghy-7175036-Sep2026/
M Morning Star
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Morning Star 🇬🇧UK · digital · Why the Garvaghy Road crisis matters for both Britain and Ireland Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Morning Star → What we have measured Anyone hurt counted the only report that carries a civilian death; the person is counted, not named ×1Anyone hurt counted Moscow region dead given by age and sex, attributed to the regional governor ×1A speaker's epithet carried in the reporter's "sugar daddies" used to describe the donors outside the quotation ×1Asserted flat, not attributed a contested political claim written as an established fact ×1 from 876 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → —
An editorial that calls the march's purpose "supremacist" in its own voice and wants the permission overturned.
‘Reviving the Garvaghy Road route for an Orange Order parade after 28 years, when it was a focal point of lethal violence back in the 1990s, looks like a bid to take us backwards too’ Editorial / 25 September 2026 Ending outsourcing is key to rebuilding the social state 25 September 2026 Editorial / 24 September 2026 Burnham must turn words into action without delay 24 September 2026 Editorial / 23 September 2026 The threat to peace and democracy comes from Washington, not Moscow 23 September 2026 Editorial / 22 September 2026 Xi meets Trump – two visions collide 22 September 2026 Editorial /
Motive stated flat: States the march's purpose as fact, with no one quoted as saying it. — “The purpose of the march is supremacist — a bid to assert the mastery of the unionist and Protestant community over Irish republicans and Catholics.”
Asserted not attributed: motive of the march stated as fact — “The purpose of the march is supremacist”
Read it at Morning Star → https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/why-garvaghy-road-crisis-matter…
M Morning Star
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Morning Star 🇬🇧UK · digital · Tensions run high in Northern Ireland after contentious march given green light Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Morning Star → What we have measured Anyone hurt counted the only report that carries a civilian death; the person is counted, not named ×1Anyone hurt counted Moscow region dead given by age and sex, attributed to the regional governor ×1A speaker's epithet carried in the reporter's "sugar daddies" used to describe the donors outside the quotation ×1Asserted flat, not attributed a contested political claim written as an established fact ×1 from 876 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → —
Places O'Neill on the road and quotes her: the dispute "brings into question how this whole peace process works".
Diplomacy / 25 September 2026 US and China must act together as ‘responsible powers,’ Xi says 25 September 2026 Middle East / 25 September 2026 Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani chiefs plan urgent talks over the conflict in Yemen 25 September 2026 World / 25 September 2026 Italy decrees limits on non-Italian speakers and veils in schools 25 September 2026 Climate Crisis / 25 September 2026 Nepal’s leader tells UN recent floods are a ‘warning to the world’ 25 September 2026 World / 25 September 2026 German school students walk out over compulsory conscription 25 September 2026 Round-up / 25 Septembe
Read it at Morning Star → https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/northern-ireland-march-parade-o…
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RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC How the morning unfolded on the Garvaghy Road Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2361 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — PUBLIC
How the morning unfolded on the Garvaghy Road Updated / Sunday, 27 Sep 2026 12:44 RTÉ's Northern Correspondent Conor Macauley reports from the Garvaghy Road. "The parade should be well over by now but of course it hasn't even started. There is no guarantee it will take place any time soon or indeed today or in the coming days." Above, you can watch his report from The Week In Politics, with the story as of noon today. More stories on News Ireland Northern Ireland Politics Ulster Video
Read it at RTÉ News → https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0927/1593104-conoc-mcauley-drumcree/
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RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC Taoiseach appeals for 'calm on all sides' in Portadown Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2361 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — PUBLIC
Reports the Taoiseach "very concerned" and asking for "calm on all sides".
Taoiseach appeals for 'calm on all sides' in Portadown Updated / Sunday, 27 Sep 2026 14:12 By Colman O'Sullivan Maggie Doyle Dimitri O'Donnell A stand-off is continuing in Portadown as hundreds of people are blocking the Garvaghy Road to prevent an Orange Order parade going down the route. Police have not cleared the march to go ahead, while the PSNI Chief Constable said a policing operation has so far ensured there had been no violence or disorder. He urged people on all sides to remain calm. Police landrovers are gathered at the top of the Garvaghy Road with some police officers in public or
Read it at RTÉ News → https://www.rte.ie/news/ulster/2026/0927/1593101-garvaghy-road-drumcree/
T The Irish Times
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The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · PSNI tells Orange Order not to march down Garvaghy Road amid blockade by protesters Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Irish Times → What we have measured Actor framing The release is framed as a joint agreement, with no pressure mentioned ×1Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road ×1Actor named killers named as 'loyalist gunmen'; verb 'shot dead' ×1With no actor named construction no actor named for the theft or the driving in the standfirst ×1 from 1358 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → —
Reports the PSNI told the Order not to march despite the court ruling.
Read it at The Irish Times → https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/09/27/orange-order-to-march-dow…
T TheJournal.ie
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TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Orange Order Drumcree march delayed as large crowd of protesters gather to stop parade Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → —
Carries the Taoiseach's words: the original decision was "incomprehensible and wrong".
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more. AN ORANGE ORDER march on Garvaghy Road has been delayed after a large crowd of protesters gathered in the area to prevent the parade going ahead. The march was due to depart Drumcree church at 8am and head from the townland into the town of Portadown, Co Armagh, but it is not clear when it will get underway. According to the ruling that granted it the right to march, it is to finish no later than 9.30am. The march was allowed to go ahead after a ruling was upheld in the early hours on Sunday in an “unprecedented” late-nigh
Read it at TheJournal.ie → https://www.thejournal.ie/drumcree-orange-order-decision-7174779-Sep202…
T The Irish Times
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The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · Loyalist parade in Northern Ireland given go-ahead after almost 30-year ban Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Irish Times → What we have measured Actor framing The release is framed as a joint agreement, with no pressure mentioned ×1Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road ×1Actor named killers named as 'loyalist gunmen'; verb 'shot dead' ×1With no actor named construction no actor named for the theft or the driving in the standfirst ×1 from 1358 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → —
Says the march was cleared after an injunction was dismissed on appeal.
A controversial loyalist parade along a nationalist street in the Northern Ireland town of Portadown has been permitted to go ahead for the first time in nearly 30 years, after a ban was overturned late on Saturday night. Amid fears the march could unleash fresh sectarian violence, the Orange Order parade down the Garvaghy Road is due to take place at 8am on Sunday, and follows a legal back-and-forth in recent days. Earlier on Saturday, after a five-hour hearing at a special sitting of the high court, Judge Patricia Smyth issued an order temporarily suspending the parade. Smyth had urged all s
Read it at The Irish Times → https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2026/09/27/loyalist-parade-…
R RTÉ News
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RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC Orange Order march delayed as Garvaghy road blocked Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2361 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — PUBLIC
Calls those blocking the road "Garvaghy Road residents".
Read it at RTÉ News → https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0927/1593090-crowds-gather-garvaghy-road/
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RNZ 🇳🇿NZ · digital · PUBLIC No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Headline against body headline claims a 20-year decline reversed; the first line of the body reports a new low in reading ×1Headline against body headline claims a turnaround; the text carries a record low and puts it on boys ×1 from 2328 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → ABC News (Australia)
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ABC News (Australia) 🇦🇺AU · public broadcaster · public-service No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor label and hedge The same man is called 'far-right' and named by his legal name. The act is hedged with 'allegedly', where the longer report states it flat. ×1A different count, stated flat one dead and 140 missing, unattributed, earliest of the four ×1Affected counted The only report to count the local people affected ×1Are the dead named one of the dead named, through a relative at the hospital ×1 from 4667 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
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BBC News
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BBC News 🇬🇧UK · public broadcaster · public-service No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Dating and attribution 'It was not until Tuesday' is a judgement about delay, not a date. No other report we hold comments on how long the German finding took. ×1How hard the claim is stated Headline says the UN voted to adopt and replace; the last sentence of the report says the vote is non-binding ×1How hard the claim is stated The qualification arrives in the last sentence and is immediately overridden by an effect the report gives no source for. ×1Which figure is used States the replacement as done — the Assembly voted to replace the map — where the resolution urges states to use a different projection. ×1 from 473 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Daily Telegraph
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The Daily Telegraph 🇬🇧UK · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Times
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