DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: British troops have joined police in the streets of Northern Ireland after yet another night of violence there. Protestant demonstrators are outraged by a ban on Sunday's planned march through a Catholic neighborhood near Portadown. CNN's Nic Robertson has the story.</s>NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Keeping roads open, a full-time job for police now. Their armored Land Rovers essential in chasing down the angry protesters. For the fourth night, barricades burned across the province as protesters showed their willingness to close down their neighborhoods. The damp night, however, seemed to subdue the stone-throwing mobs; police reporting fewer major incidents that Tuesday, when outbreaks of disorder surpassed the previous year's total. But it was by day perhaps the more effective tool than the armory of civil disobedience took hold, as small armies of women and children manned roadblocks, disrupting traffic.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When everybody across the road, there was cars coming down, and there was no bullocks.</s>ROBERTSON: Quiet negotiation, the tactic here to reopen the route, not easier when passions are running high. But repeated, time and again, police say, as roads reopened and then closed again. All the chaos of closure in the name of the Orangemen and their re-routed Drumcree march.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: People down here feel very strongly that the parade of Drumcree should have get through.</s>ROBERTSON: At Drumcree, the epicenter of the dispute, a new barricade put into protect the police felt the heat of the conflict. Here, too, the violence was lower key than on recent nights, but security chiefs still fear serious attack by fringe terror groups.</s>ROBERTSON (on camera): And in a move to strengthen their ability to defeat such threats, British officials have issued a possession order over the grounds of Drumcree Church. It will allow that police and army, if needed, to reach demonstrators sheltering there. Nic Robertson, CNN, Drumcree, Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland Violence: British Troops Join Police in Streets After Another Night of Unrest