The World - News from July 14, 1985
Ulster police fired plastic bullets to disperse rioters after pro-British Protestants were barred from parading through a Roman Catholic neighborhood in Portadown, 25 miles southwest of the capital of Belfast. Authorities said a number of policemen were injured and several arrests were made in the two-hour melee. At least a dozen stores were damaged, and one shop was torched. The demonstration was staged to mark the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, when Protestant forces defeated Catholics and assumed power in the north.
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