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Belfast bonfire RECAP as effigies set alight with fireworks as police decline to step in
BelfastLive ^ | July 11, 2025 | Michael D. Carroll

Posted on 07/11/2025 6:59:46 AM PDT by Twotone

The contentious migrant effigies at the heart of a racism storm in Belfast have been set alight after police have made a decision not to assist Belfast City Council in helping contractors remove material from a bonfire site in the city.

A Belfast City Council committee voted on Wednesday to send contractors to remove the towering pyre on Meridi Street off the Donegall Road. Belfast DUP councillors have launched a ‘call-in’ procedure over the planned removal of the controversial bonfire.

The move comes in the wake of a vote at City Hall to remove the bonfire off the Donegall Road which has sparked a row amid the presence of asbestos close-by and concerns it could disrupt power supply to both the Royal and City Hospitals.

With just a day to go before the bonfire at Monarch Street is lit, there have been ongoing legal and political efforts to resolve the situation. Earlier today, a car was parked across one entrance to the bonfire site. It is unclear if the move was intended to block access to the site.

On Wednesday night, the PSNI declared it a “major incident” as the force considered a request from the council to help contractors remove it.

In a statement on Thursday evening, police said: “The PSNI has taken the decision not to assist a request from Belfast City Council for the removal of material from a south Belfast bonfire site.

“Following comprehensive engagement with all relevant stakeholders, an evidence based assessment, and taking into consideration all of the risks associated with the removal, we have determined that police should not assist the proposed actions of Belfast City Council.

“This decision, which involved an examination of the legality, necessity and proportionality of the police involvement in the proposed action by Belfast City Council.

“This involved carefully balancing potentially competing statutory and human rights obligations.”

Meanwhile a loyalist bonfire in Co Tyrone controversially topped with an effigy of migrants in a boat has been lit. The controversial bonfire in Moygashel, near Dungannon, featured a small boat with a number of mannequins wearing life-jackets inside it.

Separately the loyalist Corcrain Redmanville bonfire was also lit in Portadown on Thursday night. Firefighters were on site dampening down neighbouring houses close to the Co Armagh pyre.


TOPICS: European Union; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: belfast; bonfire; europe; eussr; fartyshadesofgreen; fourthreich; ireland; migrants; northernireland; protests; rop
The natives appear to be getting restless.
1 posted on 07/11/2025 6:59:46 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Rosie O’Donnell may be starting to wonder: “Did I, like, make a big mistake moving to Ireland to escape Trump’s America? Let’s give it a few more months, and then evaluate.”


2 posted on 07/11/2025 7:05:00 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Twotone

You can call them “migrants”, and call the native people “racist” all you want. People are fed up with this and are finally doing something they should have done a long time ago. It should get to the point the invaders are literally running back home.


3 posted on 07/11/2025 7:10:43 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Twotone

They usually burn the Irish flag and posters of Catholic politicians or the Pope.

https://www.ncronline.org/news/world/police-northern-ireland-investigate-burning-pope-francis-image


4 posted on 07/11/2025 7:11:21 AM PDT by JSM_Liberty
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To: Twotone

It’s now or never. Once Moslems reach critical mass you are screwed.


5 posted on 07/11/2025 7:14:18 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yes, like Australia.


6 posted on 07/11/2025 7:19:55 AM PDT by OKSooner (Always carry. Even if all you can handle is a .22, carry it. You might be surprised...)
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To: Twotone

Daytime Video of the bonfire structure prior to lighting: https://x.com/ActivePatriotUK/status/1942901732469858746


7 posted on 07/11/2025 7:25:23 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Twotone

8 posted on 07/11/2025 7:25:35 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

critical mass…

There is no nice way to rid a house of an infestation of roaches, and even one roach is too many. 🪳 🪳 🪳 🪳 🪳


9 posted on 07/11/2025 7:39:38 AM PDT by drSteve78 ( Older Je suis Deplorable. Even more so”)
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To: Twotone

The nationalists and loyalists now have common cause.


10 posted on 07/11/2025 8:02:15 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: BenLurkin

Well, that ought to burn real quick like. Pallets make for good, hot fires.


11 posted on 07/11/2025 8:05:53 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: JSM_Liberty

We may be witnessing the one thing that can unite Ulster’s Catholics and Protestants.


12 posted on 07/11/2025 8:27:57 AM PDT by happyathome
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To: bk1000; Twotone

“It should get to the point the invaders are literally running back home.”

The ones that they really should go afters are the natives that allowed and promoted the invasion. IOW the enemy within. That’s the real problem.

Same here.


13 posted on 07/11/2025 9:06:51 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: IYAS9YAS

The one in Co Tyrone was set afire and the “authorities” are all in a tizzy.


14 posted on 07/11/2025 9:10:51 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Twotone

Finally! I hope it is not too late.


15 posted on 07/11/2025 10:39:15 AM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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To: Twotone

The Belfast in Ireland, not Maine.


16 posted on 07/11/2025 10:41:33 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Twotone

How about a Wickerman stuffed with a selection of the invader as an expression of traditional Celtic culture?


17 posted on 07/11/2025 10:52:42 AM PDT by katana
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To: bk1000

The racism is with the government openly importing a replacement population without the consent of the native population that is marked out for replacement.


18 posted on 07/11/2025 12:03:29 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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