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 ...

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council has agreed funding package for organisers keen to celebrate Eleventh Night with ...

Belfast City Council is to spend almost £125,000 on community bonfire beacons this summer. Details have emerged from City Hall that show exactly £124,500 from the council’s beacon programme will ...

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 ...

The dramatic development came after the council’s Strategic Policy and Resources Committee voted behind closed doors on Wednesday to clear the site at Meridi Street, amid concerns over the presence of ...

Towering bonfires are being lit in loyalist areas across Northern Ireland to usher in the main date in the Protestant loyal order parading season. A number of the pyres, mainly constructed by stacking ...

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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 ...