Loyalists sit on the Sandy Row bonfire being built in Belfast for the Eleventh Night
MASKED loyalists appear to have broken a court order banning them from extending an Eleventh Night bonfire in Belfast.
The loyalists, wearing balaclavas and scarves over their faces, could be seen yesterday afternoon using a cherry picker to add wooden pallets on to the top of a huge bonfire at a site in the east of the city that is at the centre of a controversial court ruling.
Belfast City Council secured a High Court injunction on Friday preventing more materials being added to four loyalist bonfires in Belfast amid health and safety concerns.
However, yesterday at Inverary playing fields – one of the sites covered by the injunction – pallets were being added to the bonfire.
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