Easter Parade in Derry: Tense Commemoration

0:00On April 6, a dissident Republican parade rolled through London Dairy on Easter Monday, honoring the 1916 Easter Rising against British. Rule A kicked off in the central drive area of Craigin and headed straight to the city cemetery, drawing a couple hundred folks, despite its history of, trouble, organizers from the National Republican Commemoration Committee got the green light from the Parades Commission, but with strict rules. Paramilitary style outfits or flags from band groups. Still, a color party showed up in face coverings, sunglasses, and that kind of gear, waving Irish and Republican flags. Police kept watch from a helicopter overhead, but stayed off the ground. The crowd included young people with covered faces, some toting petrol bombs and wooden planks, turning what was billed as the unfinished revolution. Event into something tense, things wrapped with speeches at the cemetery, but not before a small fire got lit in the road outside some Craigin shops. This parade has sparked a violence before, so folks are watching close for any fallout.

1:03While it stayed mostly peaceful this time, those rule breaks and the weapons in the mix keep the divide alive, and dairy questions linger on how to. Handle these charged commemoration moving forward.