A loyalist parade in Coleraine on Friday night will keep away from the area where a Catholic community worker was murdered last weekend.
Organisers of the Pride of the Bann band parade voluntarily curtailed the parade in a move welcomed by the Parades Commission which said it could have damaged community relations not just in Coleraine, but across Northern Ireland.
The commission met on Wednesday to consider the parade route amid the tensions raised by the murder of Kevin McDaid, but was saved from having to issue a rerouting order.
The Pride of the Bann said it was prepared to curtail its route "in the interests of community relations and to ease tensions".
Roger Poole, chairman of the Parades Commission, said: "The parade organiser has taken recent events into account and the Commission welcomes the steps they have taken to alleviate tensions ahead of the parade."
He added: "We acknowledge that this decision relates to this weekend's parade and is taken in the context of the violent attacks which occurred in recent days."
Mr Poole appealed for all concerned with the parade to approach the weekend in a calm and peaceful manner.
The Commission had been strongly of the view, he said, that "had the parade gone ahead as notified there was the potential for further deterioration in community relations in Coleraine and indeed across Northern Ireland".
Decision welcomed
SDLP Assembly member John Dallat said the decision of the parade organiser was to be welcomed and he expressed his gratitude to the Parades Commission for its role in achieving the outcome.
He said he hoped "this significant step is the beginning of a new beginning that would be much appreciated by those who have suffered most".
Mr Dallat added: "Let us hope that in the days and weeks ahead there will be a growing realisation among loyalists that those who resort to violence are serving no one at all and are only piling agony on everyone.
"In the next few days the families of those killed and injured need space and the wider community needs the assurance that this is the last time this will happen."
In an attack on those in power, including Ulster Secretary Shaun Woodward, he said it was time they understood their lack of leadership in deciding the future of the UDA continued to allow "this wretched organisation" to continue doing what it did best - being sectarian and evil to the point of taking a person's life.
Security Minister Paul Goggins visited Coleraine on Wednesday to meet police chiefs for discussions about the McDaid murder, which he branded "evil and barbaric".
He appealed for calm ahead of the loyalist parade and said people should be "honouring the memory of Mr McDaid and showing real respect for him and his family".
Ten people, including a 15-year-old boy, were still being questioned on Wednesday about the murder.
During the day one man was arrested and one detained earlier released.
On Tuesday night security sources confirmed that a loyalist threat was issued against one of Mr McDaid's four sons.
The warning was passed to Ryan McDaid by police and came as he continued to grieve for his father who was murdered just 48 hours earlier.
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