The marching season – when a section of Northern Ireland’s unionist community take to the streets to commemorate the triumph ...

A loyalist bonfire in Northern Ireland, controversially topped with an effigy of migrants in a boat has been lit.

Northern Ireland’s Environment Minister Andrew Muir has said he is “very disappointed” that an Eleventh Night bonfire was lit in south Belfast despite warnings over asbestos on the site.

Concerns have been raised over the bonfire, which is on a site which contains asbestos and is close to an electricity substation.

Effigies of migrants in a boat have been placed on a loyalist bonfire in Northern Ireland, prompting condemnation and calls for the display to be removed ahead of the pyre being lit.

The boat containing more than a dozen life-sized mannequins wearing life jackets was unveiled on top of the bonfire.

It is with depressing inevitability that the days preceding the Twelfth are again dominated by headlines about the highly ...

Towering bonfires, the flames rising into the skies, are identified with Twelfth of July loyalist celebrations. But the protests by right-minded people horrified at the burning of effigies of refugees ...

IT is “shameful” that a bonfire topped with effigies of migrants in a boat was allowed to go ahead, Amnesty International has said as ...

Effigies of life jacket-wearing migrants in boats put on a village bonfire have been set alight - after structure was dubbed 'sickening' and 'racist'. A sign saying 'stop the boats' was attached ...