Can This End Well?

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Carrickfergus, County Antrim

Ahead of the Eleventh Night.

A towering bonfire is being built across the road from a petrol station.

The Eleventh Night pyre is under construction on a grass verge in Carrickfergus.

Nearby, on the opposite site of the road, is a petrol station forecourt and retail units which have been built in recent years….

There have been increased concerns about bonfires built near businesses and homes after houses were gutted last year in west Belfast. Several terraced homes at Hopewell Square were damaged last July due to embers from the nearby Eleventh Night bonfire.

Towering loyalist bonfire built near petrol station (Irish News)

Thanks John Gallen

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34 thoughts on “Can This End Well?”

  2. Murtles

    What an absolute disgrace. Petrol is only €1.28 per litre up north but at least €1.36 down here.

    1. Vote Rep #1

      My local is about €1.27. Where are you getting your fancy expensive petrol from?

  3. Friscondo

    Bonfire of the profanities. Celebrated with vast amounts of the devils buttermilk every year. It’s their Kulture.

  6. Nigel

    Because one thing this year needs is another illustration of the how a lack of health and safety measures and fires go go so well together.

  9. Stephen

    serious lack of hipsters up north otherwise the scene would instead be a large batch of handmade and reclaimed pallet furniture circled around the Love Lane sign

    1. Kolmo

      Good point, they would still char them though, to make them authentic and then try to sell the smoldering artisan furniture straight away, you know, before they were cool?

  11. missred

    I saw this on the LAD Belfast page and thought it was one of their photoshopped pics. It is not, and therefore these pyromaniacs really are that stupid. Sigh.

  13. Kolmo

    Very industrious semi-genocidal scamps there – were do they get the many, many thousands of pallets?

  15. Jake38

    Hardly surprising. These are the people who colonised the dampest, dreariest, dullest part of Europe rather than say Florida or Argentina. So they are not the sharpest

    1. Stephen

      Florida’s murder, rape and gun crime rate is through the roof and their bonfire making skills have yet to be assessed

  16. Fully Keen

    A savage land. Where the people in power are afraid to enforce laws because they are afraid of the vocal minority causing more problems.

    And this also happens in Northern Ireland *does a double raised eyebrow motion while pretending to smoke a large cigar*

    1. Scundered

      ever seen the kids on scramblers at Finglas? The same thing, cops turn a blind eye incase they upset some poor people. It happens everywhere.

  17. Frilly Keane

    you’ll see bigger ones than that

    btw daysel was 115.9 in the Kylemore Road Topaz on Sunday
    (less 4c a ltr fuel card discount)

  19. Nullzero

    Natural selection in action.
    Surely the adjacent road should be renamed Hate lane.

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