Jamie Bryson

Speaking as his group left the meeting, the Orange Order District Master, Nigel Dawson, said, We have once again had a very positive and constructive meeting with the Secretary of State.

The group was accompanied by their legal advisor, loyalist activist Jamie Bryson, who said that he was there to support the rule of law.

A spokesperson for the Dublin government said that the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister emphasised to the Sinn Féin representatives the importance of protecting the gains of the peace process.

asked if they received any assurance from the Taoiseach and the Tornister about pressuring the British government.

Garvahy Road residents spokesperson Brendan McKinney confirmed last night there was a document on the table.

Both Jamie Bryson and Carla Lockhart said the Portadown district won't be accepting any deal that sees them walking away from their right to parade down the Garvahy Road.

will not be doing any deal which doesn't deliver on the fundamental legal principle.

And the fundamental legal principle is this, that the Portaday district will walk the Carvackie road and nothing else will do.

Well, I'm not an optimist.

Now, Brandon McKenna said that if the Orange Order agreed to it, he believed that the residents would agree to this.

But then last night, both Jamie Bryson, who's advising the Orange men in Drumcree, MP Carla Lockhart rejected this deal.

And I have to say that Carla Lockhart did so in a very, I suppose, Paisley-esque speech.

Can't agree a budget.

But equally, if it goes, what happens? And then you've got the fact that the two sides, you've got Jamie Bryson on one side, you've got Brandon O'Connor on the other, and you've got the DUP and Sinn Féin aligning with them ahead of next year's elections, 'cause at the moment, it suits both of those parties basically to play to the extremes and ignore the other problems.

People are entrenched, and there isn't a ladder-

Yeah

So we had this note of positivity, this note of hope, I suppose, coming from their Garvahy Road Residents Coalition yesterday saying, that said that they were happy to accept whatever drafted deal was on the table.

But it appears, if you're listening to Jamie Bryson and the DUP, that compromise, if it involves them not walking down their Gavahi Road, isn't acceptable.

Yeah, I did detect a wry smile on Brenda McKenna's face from the Residence Coalition.

So I wasn't hopeful or holding out much hope that the Orange Order was going to agree to it.

So it'll be interesting because, you know, nothing like this ever holds forever, but it'll be interesting to find out what it was.

But I'll be honest with you, I didn't, you know, I didn't sort of stay stuck to my phone thinking that a breakthrough was going to happen and it transpires that it hasn't.

I saw Jamie Bryson addressing a crowd yesterday evening and he seemed to suggest that there was money on the table, he said, but no amount of money would drive them off their intention to march down the Cravahy Road.

Well, the whole context for this dispute in particular is based around the fact that utterances were made by the porter on Down Lodge's advisor talking about culture wars and sort of spelling out in self-published work exactly the plan.

And I think that's partly the reason why we're in the problem that we're in.

I think, you know, we see that elected politicians, I think, across the piece are wrong because they are following people who are unelected, whereas Republicans follow them Brendan McKinney, or whether that's unionist politicians following Jamie Bryson.

I think on both sides, people are wrong to be doing that.

I think the Sinn Féin are wrong in terms of not respecting the rule of law.

Because I suppose it's an interesting thing.

The TUV are happy for Stormont to come down.

And some of the people like Jamie Bryson would be happy for Stormont to come down.

But for the DUP, that's not their MO.

Hold on a minute

... you know, hopefully Jamie Bryson.

That, that, that, all of that legislation is a- is about the, the, the, the, the, the rights about something being sponta- spontaneous and also about, um, the, the ability for someone to express Freedom of expression, right?

Mm-hmm.

Some of your comments coming in so far this morning.

Why is Jamie Bryson getting so much media attention, even on the BBC? What are the views of the 00 leaders' spokespeople? What is the view of the Donegal-based Orange Order, the churches, etc.? I don't know.

He's put forward as a spokesperson.

He seems to have a respected voice.

So you can't take the emotion out of it, so you have to try and figure out the solution while attending to people's emotions.

A- and some of the calls from, you know, the Orange Order side, be it from Jamie Bryson, their legal advisor, and all that kind of thing is, you know, it's up to the PSNI to step in and essentially, you know, enforce the decision of the Parades Commission and, you know, whether that's walk alongside, um, the marchers down to Garvaghy Road.

That's literally what happened in the '90s-

Mm