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 ...

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 ...

MOYGASHEL, Northern Ireland (Reuters) -A model of refugees in a boat, placed on a bonfire in a pro-British town near Belfast, was set alight on Thursday night, weeks after migrants' homes were ...

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 ...

Effigies of migrants in a boat have been placed on a loyalist bonfire in Northern Ireland, leading to condemnation and calls for the display to be removed before the pyre is lit. The display, on top ...

Bonfires will be lit across Northern Ireland tonight, July 11, for 'Eleventh Night' - but what is the meaning behind the Loyalist tradition? July 11 is the night before July 12, which is generally ...

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.

In the heart of Sierra Leone, community bonfires are transforming societies, while in Northern Ireland, similar traditions can deepen divisions. In Sierra Leone, the organisation Fambul Tok ("Family ...

TAOISEACH MICHEÁL MARTIN has said he is “dismayed” by the burning of an effigy of migrants on a bonfire in Co Tyrone and also warned about the threats posed to public health and safety by large ...

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 ...

Migrant boat model on Tyrone bonfire 'vile, dehumanising' Amnesty International's Northern Ireland director has described a ...