On the Duncairn side, the houses are large three-storey terraces, a reminder in architecture that this was once a prosperous area you would be proud to live in. Upper Mervue Street was the Best Kept street in Belfast in , which would have taken some doing in those turbulent times.
Receive today's headlines directly to your inbox every morning and evening, with our free daily newsletter. Enter email address This field is required Sign Up. Now the Union flags hang limp in the rain and boarded shutters on derelict houses opposite are stamped with stencil outlines of the Queen's head, as on the postage stamp, to notify the passing stranger that this place may be decrepit, but it is loyalist.
Martha McBride, at her gate, said it was wonderful to see people "pulling together" in support of the young boxer. Everybody has pulled together.
When it comes to sport, religion shouldn't matter. My son's friend is a Catholic and he absolutely enjoyed it too. Paddy McDonald said: "He's a good guy, a great boxer. I wouldn't care what he is. She said: "I'm disappointed for the New Lodge and Duncairn residents who have been attacked, abused and suffered disruption for the last number of months as this bonfire has been constructed.
That is the standard everyone should expect. Hundreds of Eleventh Night bonfires will be lit in loyalist communities across Northern Ireland over the weekend, most of them late on Sunday night, to usher in the main date in the Protestant loyal order parading season - the Twelfth of July. The road on Adam Street on which the Tiger's Bay bonfire has been built is owned by the Department for Infrastructure.
However, in order for council contractors to carry out the operation they need protection from the PSNI. The police are refusing to do so, having made the assessment that an intervention would risk disorder, placing people, including children, congregating at the bonfire at risk. Ministers fail in legal bid for bonfire removal.
Bonfire at Belfast interface 'cannot proceed'. Two or three bonfires 'of concern' to police. DUP quits bonfire group over community concerns.
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Peter Geoghegan reports from Belfast. History weighs heavy on the streets of Tiger's Bay in north Belfast. A colorful mural commemorating loyalist paramilitaries killed during Northern Ireland's three-decades-long 'Troubles' adorns the gable wall of a terraced house.
Across the street, the red, white and blue of the union flag flutters in a stiff breeze. The Northern Irish conflict is over, but in places like Tiger's Bay there is little sign of a peace dividend.
The giant yellow cranes of Harland and Wolff dominate the horizon. The shipyards used to employ tens of thousands of predominantly Protestant workers. Now they are mainly a visitor attraction while many locals are out of work and no longer certain of their party allegiance. But a lot of people are just fed up now," says Alec McGurgan, a grandfather who was shot in the leg as a year-old in Tiger's Bay during the Troubles.
The renewable heating incentive RHI was created in at the approval of Arlene Foster, then enterprise minister and now DUP leader, and, until last month, Northern Ireland's first minister. Foster's refusal to stand aside while the RHI overspend was investigated led to the collapse of the devolved assembly at Stormont outside Belfast.
Having "always" voted DUP, she is planning to cast her ballot for the Ulster Unionists, the smaller pro-union opposition party in Stormont. Almost 20 years after from the Good Friday peace agreement, Northern Irish politics is still dominated by nationalism and unionism. Moderate parties rarely fare well. On Friday evening, former boxer Carl Frampton, who grew up in Tiger's Bay, said bonfires played a "big part in a lot of people's cultures and traditions here" and that "all cultures should be respected".
He said that because of the row about the bonfire this week, "you'd be forgiven for thinking" this year was the first time one had been built at that location.
He remembered "helping to build and watch the bonfire being lit on that exact spot" as a young boy. He said that "attacks on neighbouring communities" were "wrong and need to stop". Bonfire at Belfast interface 'cannot proceed'. Two or three bonfires 'of concern' to police. DUP quits bonfire group over community concerns.
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Adam Street bonfire is located in the loyalist Tiger's Bay area.
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