Effigies of Sinn Fein leaders Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O’Neill and Alliance Party leader Naomi Long were burned in Carrickfergus.

The effigies were pictured on a loyalist bonfire in Carrickfergus

A demonstration in Newry heard that relations between Northern Ireland and the Republic were at their lowest point for many years.

This year sees the first return of the full celebrations since the pandemic

Firefighters responded to nearly 100 operational incidents on Monday night as hundreds of bonfires were set alight

The pyre at Craigyhill in Larne, Co Antrim, should overtake the current tallest record of 198ft set in Austria in 2019

John Steele was helping to construct a bonfire in a loyalist estate in Larne, Co Antrim, when the accident happened on Saturday night.

The bonfire in Larne was one of many being built in loyalist areas across the region ahead of the Protestant loyal orders’ Twelfth commemorations.

DUP policing board member Joanne Bunting said it was a ‘deliberate attempt to increase tensions and to provoke a response’.