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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Strutting to the sound of fife and drum, tens of thousands of conservative Protestants from the Orange Order brotherhood paraded peacefully Monday on Northern ...

(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 ...