by Roger Donnelly
Orangemen putting up flags in Coleraine last night ahead of Saturday's Battle of the Somme parade have been attacked.
They were erecting Union and Ulster Flags in Killowen Street when several well-known republicans threw stones and beer bottles at them. No one was injured.

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