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Giant Bonfires up North 🔥 …. What’s the deal ?

  • 10-07-2025 07:23PM
    #1
    Fishdoodle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 607 ✭✭✭


    As I was washing out the milk cartons for the recycling bin, there was talk on the radio of the bonfires up north to celebrate the 12th July.

    So, I wondered… with all hype about reducing our carbon footprint, meeting climate targets etc, It seemed to me that having a series of gigantic towering pallet fires might not be the wisest endeavour on many levels.

    How does it even get the go ahead?

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  • #2
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,838 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    Culture, boss.



  • #3
    Citizen Six
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,264 ✭✭✭Citizen Six


    People who build these bonfires don't care about carbon footprints.



  • #4
    SupaCat95
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,450 ✭✭✭SupaCat95


    I am fine with the 12th of July just the same I am fine with the with the St Patricks day parade.

    Its the national pastime up there.



  • #5
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,673 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    The authorities caved due to the threat of rioting. That's why.



  • #6
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Pathetic from the PSNI

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/10/failure-tear-down-belfast-bonfire-victory-mob-rule-sinn-fein



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  • #7
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74,562 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    PSNI declare toxic' dangerous bonfire a 'major incident' zone - loyalists issue threats - PSNI say 'ah well, go ahead so'.

    Probably all the Shinners fault. 😁



  • #8
    tabby aspreme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,319 ✭✭✭tabby aspreme


    OP, are you a new arrival to the country, this crap has been going on for the12th of July "celebrations" for a few centuries now



  • #9
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,454 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Since they started using the teleporters and heavy machinery to build them the skills of old have been lost 🤣.



  • #10
    alias no.9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,430 ✭✭✭alias no.9


    They're celebrating the introduction of palletized freight to Ireland by King Billy, the Dutch are hoors for efficiency in logistics



  • #11
    tabby aspreme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,319 ✭✭✭tabby aspreme


    Was it last year one of the builders made an attempt to fly and failed



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  • #12
    JVince
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,151 ✭✭✭JVince


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123621848#Comment_123621848

    Why?

    These people are as lunatic as their republican counterparts.

    They are itching to create mayhem.

    The psni are being very pragmatic by not getting involved as the result would most likely be carnage.

    These types should not get the publicity. A bit like that yoke of a rap band garnering publicity due to politicians and others weighing in on them.

    Ignore people like that, starve them of their publicity and they tend to go back to oblivion



  • #13
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74,562 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123621905#Comment_123621905

    Of course the nuances will be missed by some.

    PSNI removed an unsafe bonfire in Derry.

    Why? Because all the local elected politicians and influencers backed it's removal.

    In this instance. they don't have that backing, the DUP local councillors are making excuses about culture and NI's most notorious influencer is claiming no surrender and a 'victory' because police backed down to threats.



  • #14
    Fishdoodle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 607 ✭✭✭Fishdoodle


    … the one making headlines is near 2 electricity substations powering a hospital.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123621904#Comment_123621904

    Yep, I think that was 2 years ago.



  • #15
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,112 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    And people here want a united Ireland....having to play nicely with these knuckle dragging bonfire builders?

    No thanks.



  • #16
    Fishdoodle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 607 ✭✭✭Fishdoodle


    They’re reducing the size of the bonfire now , to allay concerns. 🤔

    https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c4gd4xrlznpo


  • #17
    StormForce13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭StormForce13


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123621932#Comment_123621932

    So Francie, clamber down off that comfy fence, pull up your dungarees and tell us what you want the PSNI to do.



  • #18
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74,562 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123622075#Comment_123622075

    Police?
    Don’t wait until a ‘major incident’ has ti be declared?

    I also like to see politicians call out this toxic behaviour.



  • #19
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,673 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123621905#Comment_123621905

    If there is a danger to the community, the police should very much be involved. Regardless of politics.



  • #20
    DayInTheBog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 979 ✭✭✭DayInTheBog


    They should call in a chopper with a big bucket of water under it like thet use for putting out fires.

    A safe way to deal with it. 😁



  • #21
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,330 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    The police could be facing legal action apparently.

    https://www.itv.com/news/utv/2025-07-09/legal-action-expected-over-loyalist-bonfire-sparking-concern-in-belfast



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  • #22
    satguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,879 ✭✭✭satguy


    The one with the boat is the best thing I have seen in years.

    In fairness, that gang do something every year,, But have out done themselves this year.



  • #23
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,412 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123622256#Comment_123622256

    Burning immigrants in effigy is part of what culture ?



  • #24
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,412 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Imagine burning all that wood in a heatwave.

    Suit them better to cut it up and distribute it as firewood to the elderly for the winter.



  • #25
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,097 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Whether you agree or not with the bonfire, the spectacle is some feat. I saw the pallet tower and assumed it was AI. How did they do it



  • #26
    satguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,879 ✭✭✭satguy


    Over the years, that particularly gang, have had some good stuff at the top of all their fires.

    The PSNI cop car,, a fishing boat,, even our old Taoiseach Leo.



  • #27
    Fishdoodle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 607 ✭✭✭Fishdoodle


    “A Craigyhill-style bonfire, if all its wood energy were captured and used efficiently, could provide enough total energy to meet the annual energy needs of around 400–430 average homes.”, said the AI app.

    …What a waste 🙄



  • #28
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74,562 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123622342#Comment_123622342

    You put one on top of the other.
    A half decent engineer would do you drawing on how to keep putting one on top of the other without it falling over.



  • #29
    Stephen_Maturin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,582 ✭✭✭Stephen_Maturin


    They really are a disgrace

    Stone age stuff

    Although I was a bit amused to see the coverage from the media of that migrant one

    Years of burning Irish flags, effigies of Irish people, spray painted with slurs calling for the deaths of all Irish - the Irish media: 😐

    Effigies of migrants instead - the Irish media: 😧😵🫨🤯😡😖



  • #30
    circadian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,670 ✭✭✭circadian


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123622289#Comment_123622289

    Hate. It's a culture of hate towards anyone different. The thing is, they don't realise the vast majority of the planet is different.



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  • #31
    SupaCat95
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,450 ✭✭✭SupaCat95


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123622342#Comment_123622342

    You would be surprised what you could do with a teleporter and 20 determined guys.



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