Five days of Drumcree talks involving Northern Ireland secretary Chris Bryant, the Orange Order and Garvaghy Road residents have broken up without agreement, with Bryant saying the conversations are over but his door remains open.

Bryant ends the conversations

Northern Ireland secretary Chris Bryant spoke on Thursday night after the latest talks with the Orange Order and residents of Garvaghy Road broke up. He described the standoff as being between a “rock and a hard place”, signalled that he would not be intervening unilaterally and, on the pending ruling, said: “I would say that the law, in the end, is the law.”

Bryant said of the talks:

The compromises that failed

Bryant said five days of talks had ended in deadlock as he set out the compromises on the table for the first time. The options discussed, he said, included mediation, and one where the right to march was respected but not exercised, and another where there was a final march and no further applications for marches into the future. No agreement had been reached on any of them, he said.

• •Reports earlier in the week suggested one option was a “one and done” parade involving about a dozen people without insignia in October
• •That came with the condition that the Orange Order would never apply again for a permit for that parade route

Breandán Mac Cionnaith of the Garvaghy Road Residents' Coalition rejected any partial parade, saying there was “no such thing as half a march”. “There's a march or there's not a march – simply that,” he said.

Court of Appeal ruling shifted to Monday

A legal appeal by the Garvaghy Road Residents' Coalition, originally scheduled for Friday, has been pushed back to Monday to allow room for further talks. Jamie Bryson, a legal adviser to the Orange Order who earlier in the week said he would “not surrender”, said he would accept Monday's ruling.

He challenged the residents going to the Court of Appeal on Monday to commit to accepting the law and walk away if it upholds the determination, saying the Orange Order would do the same, and urged them to “get off the road, stop breaking the law and allow the parade to go ahead”. “If we lose, we'll accept that,” Bryson said.

Warnings and costs around the standoff

The dispute began last week when the Parades Commission gave the go-ahead for the Orange Order to hold a procession down the mainly nationalist Garvaghy Road, the first time since 1998 that march had been allowed. Sinn Féin denounced the decision as “madness” and the taoiseach called it “incomprehensible and wrong”.

The decision plunged Northern Ireland into one of its most perilous periods since the 1998 peace deal; the dispute has threatened to collapse Stormont and returned Northern Ireland to the bleak days of the past.

• •The dispute has also revived the interest of key US Democrats
• •Richie Neal, the US representative for Massachusetts' 1st congressional district, described the parade as “needlessly provocative”
• •The Congressional Friends of Ireland Caucus, on which Neal sits, wrote to Bryant urging him to use his powers to reverse the Parades Commission decision
• •The lawmakers wrote that progress on the island of Ireland over the last three decades has been “nothing short of extraordinary”
• •They noted that twenty-eight years have passed since the Good Friday agreement was signed and that a generation has grown up without any memory of the Troubles
• •They warned that without decisive action Northern Ireland risks reopening one of the most painful chapters of its history and undermining nearly three decades of peace under the Good Friday agreement

The Northern Ireland Policing Board has been told the PSNI operation around the parading dispute has cost more than £3m. The next step is Monday's Court of Appeal hearing on the residents' challenge; Bryson has said the Orange Order would accept the ruling.