Chris Bryant

[sighs] From Late Debate.

And despite ongoing talks, there is no resolution in sight, with the Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Bryant describing the situation as being between a rock and a hard place.

A legal appeal over the march is now scheduled for Monday.

On Morning Ireland yesterday, Justin spoke to Northern Ireland Justice Minister Naomi Long.

While Troy Parrott was running rings around the Austrians in Dublin, the Orange Order and residents of the street in Portadown that they want to walk down after securing the legal right to last week... played out another scoreless draw in Hillsborough Castle.

After two hours, referee Britain's Northern Secretary Chris Bryant blew the whistle and invited all sides to a replay, if they want, when they want.

Here he is shortly before midnight.

We've discussed a wide range of options, including mediation, including an option where the right to march was respected but wasn't exercised, including an option where there was a final march and no further applications for marches into the future.

morning.

Long week, nil all after extra time.

Tell us about the options that Chris Bryant said were discussed and rejected.

Yeah, well, we know that the idea that the residents would accept the blockage of the road hadn't been right and that if the Orange Order were prepared to accept that they had made their legal position but that they wouldn't um want the the parade to take place you know if they agree not to take a part in the parade and that is just one of the things that's been reported and i think that there's there's been a lot of jumping ahead in this story you know people deciding um what what the outcome of the of the blockage of the road might mean what the the outcome of discussions might mean and so on and i would just sort of urge caution with people just wait to see how it folds out, wait to see what the legal process, which has been pushed from today until Monday, actually transpires from it.

There's an appeal that was due to come to court today, but it's been deferred to a Monday to allow time for reflection, although I'm not sure how much reflection is going to go on.

I think the new Northern Ireland Secretary, Chris Bryant, has got a crash course on how quickly things can escalate in Northern Ireland.

Something that you feel has been long dormant and long dealt with can suddenly erupt in this... week-long furore that doesn't look like it's anywhere close to being resolved.

He described the talks being between a rock and a hard place as they ended without agreement.

It came as both sides in the ongoing drum-cree parading stalemate were brought in for crunch talks with the Northern Ireland Secretary.

Chris Bryant met with the residents' coalition, as well as representatives for the Orange Order in Portadown, who were prevented from marching down Garvachie Road on Sunday.

The talks ended without a breakthrough yesterday evening and are expected to resume today.

Efforts to call off the parade were also brought to the government buildings in Dublin, where the Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou MacDonald and the deputy leader Michelle O'Neill, Northern Ireland's First Minister, met the Taoiseach Michael Martin and the tonnister Simon Harris.

We don't expect too much ahead of that legal challenge on Monday, Cian.

If you look at last night, uh, Secretary of State Chris Bryant, he said some of the options discussed included the right to march being respected but not exercised, and the option of a final march with no further applications for marches in the future.

And the, the Orange Order and the Garvaghy Road Residents' Coalition d-d-didn't seem to be too fond of either of those, um, options, or it didn't seem to, um, w- they didn't seem to take that last night.

So Monday's the day that seems to be the, the next one that people will be keeping an eye on.

Talks between members of the Portadown Orange Order and the Gravacchi Road Residents Coalition No success.

Both parties met the Secretary of State, Sir Chris Bryant, last night in Hillsborough.

Speaking afterwards, Bryant told reporters that all options put on the table had been rejected.

This is the end of these conversations.

So who should decide whether the parade goes ahead or not?

Well, there's a few different pathways now.

And I heard Nigel Dawson last night saying the Secretary of State should apply the law.

Well, the Secretary of State has different options under law.

And, you know, it's already now in the history books, and his role is spoken about in all of the history books and will be spoken about for many, many years to come.

Talks involving the Northern Secretary, Chris Bryant, the Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition, and the Orange Order, so far, they've all failed to reach a resolution, and that was despite some senior politicians claiming that there had been some progress.

I really thought there had been some progress.

Was it Wednesday, uh, evening? It looked like, certainly from the Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition side, it looked like they were happy with it, but then the loyalists went away.