Northern Ireland Parade Day Letter Bomb Found

A suspicious package found at a sorting office in Northern Ireland was a 'viable' letter bomb, police have confirmed.

The device was discovered last night at the country's main sorting office on Mallusk Road in Newtownabbey, on the outskirts of Belfast.

It was found on the biggest day of Northern Ireland's marching season which authorities are hopeful will pass peacefully.

A spokeswoman for the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said experts from the army were sent to the scene of the bomb find.

She said they found it to be "a viable letter bomb type device".

"Police are currently attending a security alert following the discovery of a suspicious package at the postal sorting office in Mallusk Road, Newtownabbey," she added.

Loyalists signalled the arrival of July 12 by lighting bonfires at midnight but were criticised for burning election posters of nationalist and republican politicians.

Tens of thousands of members of the Orange Order will march in Belfast to commemorate Protestant King William III's victory in 1690 over Catholic King James II.

Seventeen parades are expected to take place around the country as a whole.

Organisers have called on marchers to make sure all the parades pass off peacefully.

A mao showing the location of Mallusk Road, Newtownabbey

Grand Lodge of Ireland Grand Secretary Drew Nelson said: "I would have a message for young protestants or any protestant or unionist who feels strongly about what's happening now.

"If you lift a stone or a bottle on the Twelfth day you are falling into a republican trap," he said.

One of the potential flash points could be the mainly Catholic Ardoyne area of Belfast where there have been riots in the past.

A parade has traditionally gone through the Protestant area of Woodvale and then continued up the Catholic Crumlin Road.

But police and Orangemen are hopeful the parade will go ahead without the serious violence that has marred previous marches.

An emphasis on effective marshalling at the moment when the parade leaves the Woodvale area and reaches the Crumlin road is designed to make sure participants disperse quickly.

When the parade passed through the Ardoyne in recent years, republicans engaged in serious rioting. Last year, when the parade was restricted, it was loyalists who rioted.

With the bill for policing parades and flag disputes reaching £55m in the last 20 months, the authorities hope that violence will be kept to a minimum.

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