11TH Night bonfires

Lit across Northern Ireland in Protestant/unionist/loyalist communities on July 11, ‘eleventh night’ bonfires are a community tradition that spark both pride and controversy

An 11th Night bonfire from which a man fell as it was being set alight was built "without consent" on Education Authority land, it has been confirmed.

In a positive and welcome move, an anti-internment bonfire traditionally erected in Derry's Bogside has been called off.

Even in the land of the dreary steeples, time does not stand still.

The PSNI says it will investigate the burning of tricolours and effigies on a number of Eleventh night bonfires.

The bonfire in Cluan Place area of east Belfast was previously stopped in 2018 over serious safety concerns.

We can be thankful that the years when the events surrounding the Orange Order's Twelfth demonstrations were synonymous with widespread disruption, raised tensions and violent flashpoints appear to be largely behind us.

My granny's house sat high up in the Sperrin Mountains, between two hills.

External CCTV cameras at the site of a loyalist Eleventh Night bonfire at an east Belfast leisure centre were disabled hours before the controversial pyre was set alight.