Around 15,000 members of the loyalist order the Royal Black Institution today held their annual last Saturday demonstrations at six centres in the North.
The parades mark the end of the traditional marching season.
A feeder parade along the Crumlin Road, past the mainly nationalist Ardoyne area of North Belfast, has passed off without incident.
Residents staged a small demonstration amid a strong police presence for the parade.
In East Belfast, about ten nationalist residents protested as the marchers made their way past the Short Strand, heading towards the city centre.
The Parades Commission had ruled that the accompanying bands should play only hymns as they walked past St Mathew's Catholic chapel.
But tunes such as the 'Sash' and 'Derry's Walls' were played by some of the bands.
The Ardoyne march took place 30 minutes later than the time approved by the Parades Commission.
SDLP and Sinn Féin representatives said afterwards they would be making a complaint to the Parades Commission about the breach of their ruling.
Meanwhile, a leading member of the loyal orders, Reverend Mervyn Gibson, has said he believed the proposed new parades legislation would give everyone hope for the future.
Reverend Gibson was an advisor to the Stormont working group on parades.
