Northern Ireland Firefighter attacked at bonfire site as service describes ‘challenging night’ The fire service attended 72 bonfire incidents on Friday as a controversial pyre on an asbestos ...

Loyalist bonfire on site with asbestos lit despite warnings - Elsewhere, effigies of the Irish rap group Kneecap, Irish flags and sectarian slogans were burned on pyres across Northern Ireland.

The bonfires commemorate the actions of King William III's supporters in 1690, who lit fires across the countryside to welcome him and guide him to the battle site.

Northern Ireland’s Environment Minister Andrew Muir has said he is “very disappointed” that an Eleventh Night bonfire was lit in south Belfast despite warnings over asbestos on the site.

Watch a compilation of beacon bonfires being set alight across Belfast as communities mark the Eleventh Night. Footage captures towering bonfires in areas such as Meridi Street, off the Donegall ...

DUP leader Gavin Robinson will address the parade in Belfast, while Northern Ireland’s deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly will deliver a speech at the Lisburn parade. The Twelfth celebrations ...

Northern Ireland’s Environment Minister Andrew Muir said he was “very disappointed” that a controversial bonfire in south Belfast was lit despite warnings of asbestos on the site.

Northern Ireland’s Environment Minister, Andrew Muir, has said he is “very disappointed” that an Eleventh Night bonfire was lit in south Belfast despite warnings over asbestos on the site.