NI traffic alerts: Bus diversions in Belfast city centre due to heavy traffic

Road users are advised to avoid the area.

Motorists are advised to seek alternative routes. 

The Belfast Walker Club Parade will commence at 9.30am from Ballynafeigh Orange Hall and continue along the Ormeau Road to Annadale Embankment where they will travel to Donegall Pass to join up with the main Apprentice Boys of Derry Amalgamated Committee parade.

This parade will leave from Packenham Street in south Belfast at 10.25am and travel along Donegall Pass, Shaftesbury Square, Great Victoria Street, Wellington Place, Donegall Square North to Belfast City Hall for the Service of Remembrance at 11am.

The parade will then leave Belfast City Hall at 11.30am following the Service of Remembrance. It will make its way along Royal Avenue and Donegall Street moving towards the north of the city along Clifton Street, Denmark Street, North Boundary Street to the Shankill Road Garden of Remembrance and will disperse at Tennent Street at approximately 12.15pm.

Delays are expected and motorists should seek alternative routes.

UPDATE: The road reopened shortly before 9am on Saturday.

UPDATE: The Malone Road is now clear following an earlier road traffic collision.