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Another Eleventh Night, and another triumph for pure sectarian hatred
Hanging effigies of three women politicians on a bonfire. Crowds gather to celebrate and cheer as Naomi Long, Michelle O’Neill and Mary Lou McDonald burn.
It’s like something from the Middle Ages, not a civilised, modern-day democracy. The images from the Glenfield bonfire in Carrickfergus were the most chilling of all those from the Eleventh Night.
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