LONDON — Authorities in Northern Ireland are investigating a bonfire that featured effigies of migrants in a boat and a banner reading “stop the boats’’ to determine whether it was a hate incident ... Get the latest breaking news as it happens. Sign up.
As part of the festivities effigies of rap trio Kneecap were set alight and Irish flags were burned on pyres along with 300 other bonfires in loyalist neighbourhoods across the region on Thursday and Friday nights.
They’re burning the tricolour in Tyrone. As the man quoted at the end of Seanín Graham’s report from the Moygashel bonfire on Thursday night trumped, “This is all part of our culture.” ... Burn the symbol of the taigs, burn the immigrants in effigy ... .