31 March - Tom King, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announces decision to ban the Apprentice Boys Easter Monday Parade, resulting in rioting in Portadown and other parts of the North, police homes attacked with petrol bombs, and 11 Catholic homes petrol-bombed in Lisburn.
On 15 July, Police in Portadown came under attack with a riot involving around 100 people.
But he quit his role in December 2001, saying that as Portadown Orangemen had withdrawn from dialogue, he was "unable to take the process any further".
It is a triple-arched stone bridge constructed in 1855 by William Dargan, who was also responsible for the Portadown to Dungannon section of the Ulster Railway.
Before moving to Scotland in 2005 he was the rector for 19 years of Seagoe Parish Church in Portadown and Archdeacon of Dromore and from 1995 to 2002 the Dean of Dromore.
In 1963 Benson submitted his report, which recommended closing all railways in Northern Ireland except the Belfast commuter lines to Bangor, County Down and Larne and the main line between Belfast and the Republic of Ireland, and the reduction of the main line between Portadown and the Republic to single track.
Born in Portadown, Whitten became the managing director of T. A. Shillington, a builders' merchants.
Portadown College (often shortened to the College) is an academic selective grammar school in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, founded in 1924.
It was written (initially anonymously) by journalist and political commentator Newton Emerson, a Portadown resident.
St Mary's Youth Football Club (usually just St Mary's) is a Northern Irish football club based in Portadown, County Armagh, playing in Intermediate Division B of the Mid-Ulster Football League.
Currently, the project brings teens from eleven cities in Northern Ireland, including Banbridge, Belfast, Derry, Omagh, Coleraine, Strabane, Sion Mills, Limavady, Portadown, Castlederg, Enniskillen and Cookstown.
Alex McSpadyen (born 19 December 1914; died 1978) was a Scottish footballer, who played for Partick Thistle and Portadown.
Educated at Saint Eunan's College in Letterkenny, Devenney has also previously played soccer for League of Ireland club Finn Harps and Irish League clubs Limavady United and Portadown.
Thereafter he took up the position of player-manager at Cork Hibernians before spells in management with Bangor (twice) and Portadown.
Christopher Casement (born 12 January 1988) is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays for Portadown in the NIFL Premiership.
This practice has been broken only once when, in 1999, the House of Bishops voted unanimously in public to endorse the efforts of the Archbishop of Armagh, the Diocese of Armagh and the Standing Committee of the General Synod in their attempts to resolve the crisis at the Church of the Ascension at Drumcree near Portadown.
David Thomas Miskelly (born 3 September 1979) in Newtownards, Northern Ireland, is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Portadown.
The last time a club from outside Belfast won the cup was in 2005, when Portadown beat Larne 5–1 to win the cup for the third time.
Little began his career as a journalist working for The Portadown News and the Belfast Telegraph.
In 1993, McLeod had a brief spell in Northern Ireland with Portadown before moving back to Scotland in December 1993 with Stirling Albion.
In the 1911 Irish Census the Haire family are documented as residing at 4 Century Street, Portadown.
He returned to local football with Portadown, Distillery then Dungannon Swifts before retiring from the game due to a long–term ankle injury.
In December 2010 he signed for Portadown on an 18-month deal with the option for another 12 months.
He also played in Ireland for Portadown Celtic and Glenavon.
McGibbon began his career at his local Irish Premier League club, Portadown, signing a professional contract with them in 1991, aged just 18.
In February 2013, Peter moved closer to his hometown of Monaghan to Shamrock Park and Portadown.
Poyntzpass, a small village situated between Portadown and Newry, Northern Ireland
He left Celtic in 1989 and had spells with clubs including Carlisle United, Motherwell, Portadown and Cliftonville.
Stevenson was released by Albion at the end of the 2012–13 season, and he subsequently had an unsuccessful trial with Northern Irish team Portadown.