The violence broke out following the decision by the Parades Commission to bar Orangemen from walking past the Irish Republican Ardoyne area & Unionist Woodvale area.
Members of the modern Orange Order (also known as Orange Institution), a Protestant fraternal organisation
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But he quit his role in December 2001, saying that as Portadown Orangemen had withdrawn from dialogue, he was "unable to take the process any further".
In 1959 he played on the Orangemen's national championship squad with future Heisman Trophy winner Ernie Davis.