UUP leader Doug Beattie backs mandatory regulation for bonfires UUP leader Doug Beattie pictured at the Bonfire in Adam Street in north Belfast last week Connla Young
Prominent loyalist Jamie Bryson
UUP leader Doug Beattie has said there needs to be mandatory regulation of Eleventh Night bonfires.
He remains in critical but stable condition in hospital.
In the days leading up the Eleventh Night a 16-year-old boy was airlifted to hospital after he fell from a pyre in Cookstown in Co Tyrone.
More concerns have been raised after two huge bonfires in Larne and another in Portadown collapsed after being set ablaze at the weekend.
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Two Stormont ministers have failed in a legal bid to force police in Northern Ireland to assist in removing a contentious loyalist bonfire.
Sinn Fein Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey and SDLP Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon took proceedings against the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) over its decision not to intervene on the bonfire in the loyalist area of Tiger’s Bay in north Belfast.
The police declined to offer protection to removal contractors, citing concerns that their intervention could lead to disorder.
The ministers’ bid to compel the police to act failed at emergency High Court proceedings on Friday.
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Stormont ministers fail in legal bid to force police to help remove loyalist bonfire
Saturday, July 10, 2021
By David Young, PA
Two Stormont ministers have failed in a legal bid to force police in Northern Ireland to assist in removing a contentious loyalist bonfire.
Sinn Féin Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey and SDLP Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon took proceedings against the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) over its decision not to intervene on the bonfire in the loyalist area of Tiger’s Bay in north Belfast.
The police declined to offer protection to removal contractors, citing concerns that their intervention could lead to disorder.