Bonfire row should never have gone to court, DUP says

A controversial loyalist bonfire built at the interface in north Belfast dividing loyalist Tigers Bay and nationalist New Lodge 

A legal bid to force police in Northern Ireland to assist in removing a contentious loyalist bonfire should never have been taken to court, a DUP MLA has stated.

William Humphrey said public money had been squandered in the proceedings taken by Sinn Féin Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey and SDLP Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon 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.