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>From Irish Times
<<New challenges for Mr. Blair & Co ...>>
> Saturday, July 3, 1999
>
> Drumcree enshrouded in
> a ring of steel
>
>
>
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> ------- By Chris Anderson, in Drumcree
>
> The fields around Drumcree Parish Church were transformed
> yesterday from a picturesque rural landscape into a scene
> reminiscent of a first World War battlefield.
>
> From shortly after 3 a.m., the RUC and British soldiers poured
> into the fields directly facing the Co Armagh church. Saxon
> armoured cars provided the vanguard of the security deployment,
> quickly followed by engineer units, complete with digging and
> ploughing equipment. These in turn were supported by RUC officers
> in full riot gear and soldiers in armoured Land-Rovers.
>
> Within minutes the roads leading to Drumcree were sealed and work
> began on the installation of the security measures.
>
> Army engineers ploughed a track as wide as a major road across
> the two fields which, in recent years, have been used by the
> Orangemen as rallying points. Behind this, soldiers using
> mechanical diggers widened and deepened the small stream which
> bisects the field pattern at Drumcree.
>
> The natural barrier was quickly transformed into a 400-yard-long
> ditch, measuring about 20 ft wide by 12 ft deep. Where the stream
> passed under the small bridge close on the road leading towards
> the Garvaghy Road, troops stacked sandbags, ensuring that a
> natural dam would be in place within hours.
>
> Behind the newly-dug ditch soldiers hammered innumerable metal
> posts into the ground in preparation for the construction of
> razor-wire entanglements, designed to prevent even the most
> foolhardy protester from gaining access to the prohibited parade
> route.
>
> An almost impregnable wire barrier was erected in front of the
> security force lines. Alongside this engineers constructed a
> 15-ft high metal barrier which was placed across the road
> directly behind the bridge. When in place, it was quickly welded
> together and further sections of razor wire were secure in place
> at the top.
>
> As the work close to Drumcree continued, other army units were
> putting more security measures in place in Portadown itself.
>
> A temporary checkpoint, complete with massive concrete blocks and
> wire, sealed off the top end of the Garvaghy Road. Throughout the
> morning police monitored the flow of traffic and personnel in and
> out of the area.
>
> Nearby, St John's Catholic Church which faces the Drumcree parade
> route was also blocked off by concrete and wire defences. The
> wasteland skirting Catholic homes at Garvaghy Park, which runs
> close to the parade route, was being patrolled by army personnel
> behind the now predictable wire barriers.
>
> There were further security measures in place close to the
> loyalist Edgarstown estate. A permanent metal screen had been
> erected along a section of the Corcrain Road preventing clashes
> between Portadown's rival communities at what, in the past, has
> been a flashpoint area. Nearby Protestant children were busy
> building a "Twelfth" bonfire oblivious to the actions of the
> security forces.
>
> By mid-afternoon the security measures were almost complete and
> sections of Portadown were enshrouded in a ring of steel. The
> town now sits, tense and apprehensive, awaiting tomorrow's
> parade, which this year includes Protestant victims of the
> "Troubles", who are taking part in the Long March from Derry to
> Drumcree.
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