In pictures: Thousands gather in Cookstown for Apprentice Boys' Easter Monday parade

Cookstown was filled with colour and spectacle when the Apprentice Boys’ of Derry’s annual Easter Monday parade was held in the town.

The event, the organisation’s first major outing of 2023, was hosted this year by the South Derry and East Tyrone Amalgamated Committee and attracted more than 40 bands and thousands of marchers and spectators.

25. Apprentice Boys' Easter Monday parade in Cookstown

Keeping in step. Photo: Stephen Davison / Pacemaker

26. Apprentice Boys' Easter Monday parade in Cookstown

Enjoying the parade. Photo: Stephen Davison / Pacemaker

27. Apprentice Boys' Easter Monday parade in Cookstown

The town was packed for the Easter Monday parade. Photo: Stephen Davison / Pacemaker

28. Apprentice Boys' Easter Monday parade in Cookstown

Graeme Stenhouse and Worthington McGrath, the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the Apprentice Boys of Derry, who led the Apprentice Boys' South Derry and East Tyrone Amalgamated Committee commemoration of the 334th anniversary of the start of the Siege of Londonderry in Cookstown on Easter Monday. Photo: Stephen Davison / Pacemaker

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