Editing Ian Paisley (section)

===Drumcree dispute===
Paisley was involved in the [[Drumcree conflict|Drumcree dispute]] during the late 1980s and 1990s. He supported the right of the [[Orange Order]], a Protestant unionist fraternal organisation, to march through the Catholic part of [[Portadown]]. The Catholic residents sought to ban the yearly march from their area, seeing it as [[sectarianism|sectarian]], triumphalist and [[supremacism|supremacist]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/342901.stm "Drumcree tension eases"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908032704/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/342901.stm |date=8 September 2017 }}. ''BBC News''. 13 May 1999.</ref><ref>[https://archive.today/20120905134042/http://www.independent.ie/national-news/big-changes-in-character-of-drumcree-dispute-437818.html "Big changes in character of Drumcree dispute"]. ''[[Irish Independent]]''. July 1998.</ref> Paisley was a former member of the Orange Order<ref>{{cite book|author1=Wolff, Stefan  |author2=Neuheiser, Jorg|title=Peace at Last?: The Impact of the Good Friday Agreement on Northern Ireland (Studies in Ethnopolitics)|publisher=Berghahn Books|year=2003|page=103|isbn=978-1-57181-518-7}}</ref> and belonged to a similar Protestant brotherhood: the [[Apprentice Boys of Derry|Apprentice Boys]]. He also addressed the yearly gathering of the [[Independent Orange Order]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/10-things-to-know-about-ian-paisley-30582350.html | title=10 Things to Know about Ian Paisley | work=Irish Independent | date=12 September 2014 | access-date=14 September 2014 | author=Whelan, Frank | archive-date=14 September 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140914044318/http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/10-things-to-know-about-ian-paisley-30582350.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

On 30 March 1986, a loyalist march was banned from the Catholic district. At midnight, 3,000 loyalists gathered in the town centre. Led by Paisley, they forced their way past police and marched through the Catholic district. Residents claimed that some of the marchers were carrying guns<ref>Dominic Bryan, T.G. Fraser & Seamus Dunn. ''Political Rituals: Loyalist Parades in Portadown''. [http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/csc/reports/rituals4.htm Part 4: 1985 & 1986] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165500/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/csc/reports/rituals4.htm |date=3 March 2016 }}. [[Conflict Archive on the Internet]] (CAIN)</ref><ref name="Mulholland">Mulholland, Peter. [https://www.scribd.com/doc/26105917/Two-Hundred-Years-in-the-Citadel ''Two-Hundred Years in the Citadel''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102231507/http://www.scribd.com/doc/26105917/Two-Hundred-Years-in-the-Citadel |date=2 November 2012 }}. 2010.</ref> and that police did little to stop the loyalists attacking their homes.<ref name="Mulholland"/> This led to severe rioting between residents and the police.<ref name="Mulholland"/>

In July 1995, residents succeeded in stopping the Orange march from entering their area. Thousands of Orangemen and loyalists engaged in a standoff with the police and army at [[Drumcree Church]]. Paisley addressed a rally at Drumcree, telling a crowd of thousands:<blockquote>We will die if necessary rather than surrender! If we don't win this battle all is lost. It is a matter of life and death; it is a matter of Ulster or the Irish Republic; it is a matter of freedom or slavery!<ref>Cochrane, Feargal. ''Unionist Politics and the Politics of Unionism Since the Anglo-Irish Agreement''. Cork University Press, 1997. p.338</ref></blockquote>

Afterwards, Paisley gathered a throng of Orangemen and tried to push through the police lines, but was arrested.<ref name=drumcree95>{{cite web |url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/parade/develop.htm#1 |title=Events at Drumcree – July 1995 |publisher=[[Conflict Archive on the Internet]] (CAIN) |access-date=17 September 2014 |archive-date=19 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719030735/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/parade/develop.htm#1 |url-status=live }}</ref> Loyalists threw missiles at the police and tried to break through the blockade; police responded with [[plastic bullet]]s.<ref name=drumcree95/> In support of the Orangeman, loyalists blocked roads across Northern Ireland, and there were attacks on Catholics and the police.<ref name=drumcree95/> The march was eventually allowed to continue through the Catholic area. As the march ended, Paisley and [[David Trimble]] held hands in the air in what appeared to be a gesture of triumph, causing considerable ill-feeling among the Catholic residents.<ref name=drumcree95/>