Placing of picture of Taoiseach on loyalist bonfire investigated by police

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Placing of picture of Taoiseach on loyalist bonfire investigated by police
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The placing of a picture of Irish premier Leo Varadkar and an Irish flag on a bonfire is being investigated by police as a hate-related incident.

Police are investigating the placing of an Irish flag and a picture of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on a loyalist bonfire in Co Tyrone as a "hate crime".

On the side of the boat a banner reading "Good Friday Agreement? That ship has sailed" was hung, with a mock copy of the 1998 accord across which the words "null and void" were printed. "Burning the flag of our neighbouring state & a poster of the head of government of that state is disrespectful and wrong. It is not culture!"

There has been controversy around bonfires in previous years, with election posters and Irish flags hung from the stacks of wood, with some towering more than 100ft high. DUP MP Carla Lockhart said it was a "very sad day that 25 years on from this dispute we're still in the same situation where Orange feet are not welcome on a particular stretch of road".

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