Protestors are still in place on the Garvaghy Road as the Orange Order continue to attempt to march down the road.

The dispute between the residents of the Garvaghy Road and the Orange Order doesn't seem likely to end any time soon, with compromise proposals being declined.

The Orange Order attempted to march down the road on October 4, but were stopped by the police.

Thousands had gathered on the road to protest the march, with Ciara Doherty speaking to local Dessie Trainer on The Pat Kenny Show about the feeling among the Garvaghy Road residents.

Mr Trainer is vehemently opposed to the march, and shared his family's history with the Orange Order, including the death of his mother and brother.

He shared: "My mum, Dorothy, was a Protestant from Portadown, and my father was a Catholic from West Belfast. They got married and settled in Portadown, and they had a family of 11, seven brothers, four sisters.

"So, in the early years of the Troubles conflict, we were put out of our house in Brownstown, which is a Protestant area of Portadown. And in the early 70s, we moved to the Garvaghy Road.

"Now, the house that we went into, there was good Protestant people in it who had been put out. That was what was happening at that time. But, anyway, we got on with our lives.

"On the 1st of April, 1975, my mum had gone out with my father for a night out, on a Saturday night, and coming home through the People's Park, the UVF [Ulster Volunteer Force] shot them and my mother died, and my father survived."

This wasn't the only tragedy to strike the family at the hands of the UVF, as in the same year, his 17-year-old brother Ronnie died when the paramilitary group blew up their house.

In 1978, tragedy struck again when his older brother Tommy and pal Denny Kelly were shot dead while going up the other side of the town to sign on.

The question being asked by many locals, and many of those not involved in the situation, is why the Orange Order is so determined to march down the Garvaghy Road, with Mr Trainer feeling that the main reason is to march over the local's rights and beliefs, laying claim to the road.

However, Dessie and other residents are determined not to "go back" to those dark days and pass on the trauma they experienced to their grandchildren.

"I have five absolutely beautiful grandchildren and I'm out on that road now. I've been out on that road all week. I'm actually exhausted.

"I'll be up in the Court of Appeal tomorrow as one of the people who's bringing the case against the Orange and I think I'm just going to say something to show there's no going back.

"There's no going back. I have to do it for my grandchildren."

Main image: More than two thousand people gathered on September 27 near Drumcree and blocked the Garvaghy Road in protest over a Orange Order Parade on Sunday morning. Pic: Steven McAuley/Alamy Live News