A loyalist bonfire in Moygashel features an effigy of a migrant vessel with life-size mannequins in lifejackets, drawing widespread condemnation. Politicians call the display sickening and hateful, with demands for its removal. Sinn Fein’s Colm Gildernew describes it as a clear incitement to hatred. SDLP councillor Malachy Quinn reported it to the police, denouncing it as not celebratory of culture but rather as racism. Alliance councillor Eddie Roofe echoed that it incites fear and does not represent the community. This incident follows anti-immigrant riots and ongoing political focus on migrant crossings in boats.
This is an absolutely disgusting act fuelled by sickening racist and far-right attitudes... This is a clear incitement to hatred and must be removed immediately.
Those responsible for this hateful display claim to be celebrating British culture. Let's be clear, racism and intimidation are not culture.
Those responsible only seek to incite fear and spread far-right beliefs and do not represent the community as a whole.
Some events have acquired notoriety over the years for burning the Irish tricolour and effigies of nationalist politicians and other perceived enemies of loyalism.
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