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.

Firefighters in Northern Ireland faced a "challenging" night as multiple bonfires were lit ahead of 12 July celebrations, ...

Elsewhere, effigies of the Irish rap group Kneecap, Irish flags and sectarian slogans were burned on pyres across Northern Ireland.

Elsewhere, effigies of the Irish rap group Kneecap, Irish flags and sectarian slogans were burned on pyres across Northern Ireland.

Eleventh night bonfires have been lit across Northern Ireland, including at a controversial site in south Belfast. The fires are lit every year as part of celebrations in some unionist areas, ahead of ...

Effigies of the Irish rap group Kneecap, Irish flags and sectarian slogans are topping loyalist bonfires in Northern Ireland. It comes the night after effigies of migrants in a boat were burned on top ...

The Northern Ireland Environment Agency says fragments of suspected asbestos were found at five locations on the site at ...

Police in Northern Ireland said the risk of the South Belfast bonfire proceeding is lower and more manageable than its ...

Concerns have been raised over the bonfire, which is on a site which contains asbestos and is close to an electricity substation.

Northern Ireland’s deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly has said people “playing politics” over a contentious loyalist bonfire in Belfast should step back and allow safety work on the site to ...