Billy Wright (loyalist)
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William Stephen Wright, known as King Rat, was a Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary leader who founded the Loyalist Volunteer Force during The Troubles. Wright had joined the Ulster Volunteer Force
Skyline of Wolverhampton, England, where Wright was born to Northern Irish Protestant parents
Security barriers in Portadown, County Armagh at the height of the Troubles. Wright made his home in Portadown from the time he transferred there as a teenager
Drumcree Church, Portadown where Wright appeared at the 1996 Drumcree standoff to support the Orange Order's right to march its traditional route through nationalist areas
Maze Prison, outside Lisburn, where Wright was sent in April 1997, and shot dead the following December
Drumcree conflict
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The Drumcree conflict or Drumcree standoff is a dispute over yearly parades in the town of Portadown, Northern Ireland. The town is mainly Protestant and hosts numerous Protestant marches each summer,
Some members of Portadown District Loyal Orange Lodge marching in Armagh during the 12 July parades, 2009
An "Orange Arch" in Annalong. Similar arches are erected in Portadown each summer, including one at the end of the mainly nationalist and Catholic Garvaghy Road.
The underpass leading from the town centre (behind camera) to Obins Street (beyond the bridge). The area is known as "the Tunnel".