{"id":242348,"date":"2025-07-06T09:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T09:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/242348\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T09:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T09:34:11","slug":"sam-mcbride-why-controlling-rather-than-eradicating-bonfires-could-help-loyalism-and-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/242348\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam McBride: Why controlling rather than eradicating bonfires could help loyalism, and society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">July pyres are deeply valued by many here in NI\u2026 but we can make them safer and stamp out the sectarianism\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Craigyhill bonfire in Larne was one of several in Mid and East Antrim\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/196cad0a-cdb8-4f7b-a26d-75d8301cd0d2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Craigyhill bonfire in Larne was one of several in Mid and East Antrim<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Across Northern Ireland, scores of bonfires are growing higher by the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">On Friday night they\u2019ll be lit, burning furiously and then smouldering as the light comes up on unionism\u2019s high day: the Twelfth of July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July pyres are deeply valued by many here in NI\u2026 but we can make them safer and stamp&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[94226,1144,6413,6410,11528,94225,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-242348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-feile-an-phobail","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-orange-order","11":"tag-sam-mcbride","12":"tag-sinn-fein","13":"tag-the-twelfth","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114805608774892352","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}