NI centenary parade: WATCH – 500 police officers on duty at vast Orange march

He said “our ambition is to make it go peacefully and without a hitch... clearly there’ll be traffic disruption in the centre of Belfast as people come and go but you can see here at the moment it’s a real vibrant happy family atmosphere”.

Once bandsmen hit the city centre, there are not going to be any major speeches and country lodges are expected to largely disperse to their buses and trains, and Belfast ones will continue on their own separate ways to their home lodges.

• WATCH long 10 minute clip of start of the parade

• Northern Ireland centenary parade attracted 100,000 spectators, say police

• WATCH as Union Flag-clad songstress belts out ‘Sweet Caroline’ to the crowds

• WATCH IN HIGH QUALITY Rev Gibson savages Protocol saying ‘unless it is not sorted then there will be no next 100 years for NI’

• WATCH 500 police officers on duty at vast Orange march

• WATCH Here they come... WATCH as head of parade hits City Hall

• WATCH‘Go on Jeffrey!’ Ripple of applause as DUP leader passes east Belfast

• Ben Lowry: Today’s parade is a reminder that NI was denied a 100th birthday

• Mile-by-mile layout of the route for bandsmen and brethren with landmarks for out-of-towners

• Hotels ‘bunged’ as Orange marchers and musicians flock to Belfast – of 110 hotels just eight have rooms

• 25,000 unionists set for Stormont on Saturday for Northern Irish centenary – but no Union Flag allowed over building