Tensions are continuing to smoulder around two controversial loyalist bonfires in Northern Ireland as time ticks down to when they are due to be lit. In Belfast, a city council committee voted on ...

A bonfire topped with an effigy of migrants in a boat has been lit in Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland, prompting a hate incident investigation. Footage showed a boat containing more than a dozen ...

Several Northern Ireland politicians, as well as Catholics and journalists, were targeted in bonfires that were erected for the Eleventh Night. A bonfire in the Rathcoole area of Newtownabbey, Co ...

LONDON — Authorities in Northern Ireland are investigating a bonfire that featured effigies of migrants in a boat and a banner reading “stop the boats’’ to determine whether it was a hate incident.

Northern Ireland Secretary of State and Labour Party MP Hilary Benn on Friday condemned the burning of effigies and sectarian symbols in Eleventh Night bonfires, according to statements he made to BBC ...

July 11 (UPI) --A Northern Ireland town constructed a bonfire pyre measuring more than 205 feet tall, a possible new Guinness World Record. The Craigyhill Bonfire Committee in Larne said the bonfire ...

Towering bonfires will be lit in loyalist areas across Northern Ireland later to usher in the main date in the Protestant loyal order parading season. The build-up to the “Eleventh Night” celebrations ...

Antrim and Newtownabbey Council has agreed that sanctions should be imposed on community groups which breached the terms of the borough council’s bonfire management programme. A report presented to ...

Three police officers have been injured in violent clashes at the site of an anti-internment bonfire in Belfast. Trouble erupted in the city’s New Lodge estate on Thursday after a major bonfire was ...

(AP) Shouting “No surrender!” and singing anti-Catholic songs, Protestant hardliners across Northern Ireland burned midnight bonfires topped with Irish flags and prepared to parade past Catholic areas ...