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An uneasy peace – how a week of the Drumcree parade dispute has unfolded
All the ingredients of a typical Northern Ireland crisis have been in place for the past week except for one – violence.
A stand-off - over a proposed Orange Order parade in Portadown, opposed by nationalist residents of the Garvaghy Road - has lasted since Sunday morning.
Verbal clashes between politicians, late-night negotiations, appeals for calm and a major security operation have all been in the mix.
However, the Drumcree parade dispute in Portadown has not descended into disorder or trouble on the streets.
Sometimes in Northern Ireland, the definition of success is "nobody got hurt".
The crisis is not over, and fears of an outbreak of street violence remain, but everything is under control at the moment.
The truth is few predicted a relatively peaceful week when the crisis first erupted.
Tension started to build after the Parades Commission, which regulates marches, gave the go-ahead for the controversial Orange Order parade in Portadown to pass along the mainly-nationalist Garvaghy Road.
Orange Order members stand outside Drumcree Church on Monday
Within 24 hours the issue was being battled out at the High Court in Belfast during an urgent Saturday hearing which ended up lasting more than 13 hours..