More Sinn Féin politicians attend police interview over Garvaghy Road protest
BBCMore senior Sinn Féin politicians have attended police interviews over their roles in a protest on the Garvaghy Road that blocked an Orange Order parade last month.
Assembly members (MLA) Deirdre Hargey and Gerry Kelly and member of Seanad Éireann (the upper house of the Irish parliament) Conor Murphy attended Musgrave Police Station in Belfast on Friday.
It comes after the First Minister Michelle O'Neill and Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald also attended police interviews earlier this week.
The protests were part of a 13-day stand-off which blocked a contentious Orange Order march from passing along the mainly nationalist street.
Hargey said they "stood with the residents on the Garvaghy Road".
"So we're obviously here today to follow the due process and that's something that we will engage in, but we will continue to do what's right and to stand with those residents in the time ahead."
Both MLAs said they would not be resigning from the Policing Board if they were charged with any offences.
Hargey added: "We're here to do a job and that's to represent the people across the constituency and our role on the policing board will remain and we will continue to stand up for people."
Kelly said he "came into politics to do the right thing."
"I believe I did the right thing then, I would do it again. I did it in the 1990s along with them. That was a just cause, and I will continue to do that."
"They'll ask whatever questions they ask, and it'll take its own direction. That's what the police are for."
