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Bonfires were lit at an estimated 300 locations ahead of the Orange Order's 12 July parades. This included one on a site that ...
The Sandy Row eleventh night bonfire near Belfast city centre lit just before midnight on Friday July 11 2025 into Saturday ...
Controversy has surrounded the Belfast bonfire due to asbestos on the site and the proximity to an electricity substation ...
Northern Ireland’s Environment Minister Andrew Muir has said he is “very disappointed” that an Eleventh Night bonfire was lit ...
Eleventh night bonfires have been lit across Northern Ireland, including one on a site in Belfast with asbestos, despite ...
Northern Ireland’s Environment Minister Andrew Muir has said that a contentious loyalist bonfire in south Belfast should not ...
Elsewhere, effigies of the Irish rap group Kneecap, Irish flags and sectarian slogans were burned on pyres across Northern ...
It is "shameful" that a bonfire topped with effigies of migrants in a boat was allowed to go ahead, Amnesty International has ...
Eleventh night bonfires have been lit across Northern Ireland, including at a controversial site in south Belfast. The fires are lit every year as part of celebrations in some unionist areas, ahead of ...
DUP Communities Minister Gordon Lyons has now said everyone convicted of last month’s racist rioting in Northern Ireland will ...
Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) staff monitored events last night along with statutory partners throughout the ...
Posters and effigies featuring Belfast rap trio Kneecap have appeared alongside sectarian slogans on Eleventh Night bonfires.