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'Pure racism': Sinn Féin say bonfire decorated with mosque causing 'huge fear'

Moygashel loyalists placed an effigy of a mosque on their bonfire and set it alight after the PSNI said they planned to remove it.

Bonfire clean-up and protections cost housing body £1.4m

The costs included boarding up doors and windows, removing downpipes and clearing up ash and debris after the burning of the pyres.

Detectives appeal for witnesses to Eleventh Night bonfire murder carried out in front of ‘several hundred people’

Detectives have made a new appeal for information 26 years on from the murder of a man attending a bonfire in Co Antrim ahead of Twelfth of July. The PSNI’s Legacy Investigation Branch said the family of Andrew Cairns,
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N.Ireland anti-Islam loyalist bonfire condemned as 'hate' offence

Northern Irish police arrested a man on Thursday after a replica mosque was placed on a bonfire in an anti-Islam stunt in the village of Moygashel in the UK province. "A 56-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of contravention of (public order legislation),

'I'm going to have to pay £800 to protect my windows from bonfire'

The 11th night bonfires are lit every year as part of celebrations in some unionist areas A man who lives close to the site of a bonfire has said he has been quoted a price of just under £800 to fit protective boarding over his windows.