The annual Apprentice Boys’ ‘Relief of Derry’ parade again passed off without any major incidents today.
In years gone by, the parade was often marred by trouble in the city centre.
However, following talks between a range of relevant organisations in recent years, the atmosphere around the parade has been transformed.
There were some disturbances in the Fahan Street area close to the city centre last night, just hours before the start of the parade.
Petrol bombs and fireworks were thrown by nationalist youths at police as they dealt with a security alert.
A suspect device was later declared an elaborate hoax.
However, thousands of Apprentice Boys and their supporters gathered in the city centre today for the annual parade.
The event started this morning with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Diamond, before the local marching bands made their way to the Waterside to meet up with visiting bands.
The entire parade then made its way back over the Craigavon Bridge to go through the city centre.
The parade then returned to the Waterside.
Once the main parade had broken up, the local bands marched back to the Apprentice Boys’ hall at Society Street.
There was a heavy police presence outside the Ferryquay Street entrance of the Richmond Centre, where large groups of people had gathered on either side of the road, as the parade passed on the return journey.
Some of the supporters of the parade traded sectarian insults with people standing on the other side of the road.
Some of the marchers also sang sectarian songs as they passed the location.
The above photograph by Hugh Gallagher shows one of the local bands marching along Ferryquay Street.
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