Gerry Adams met protesters blocking a controversial loyalist parade which is taking part for the first time in nearly 30 years.
The DUP accused Sinn Féin of breaking the law after the party’s president Mary Lou McDonald also joined a blockade on Garvaghy Road.
The parade, through the mainly Catholic enclave in the largely Protestant town of Portadown, was given the go-ahead at 8am this morning.
Demonstrators linked arms in the rain and sang songs in an attempt to block the march, just minutes before it was due to start, as an announcement over a loudspeaker told them that they were liable for arrest for
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