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Image of Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill placed on loyalist bonfire sparks condemnation

  • Picture of Michelle O'Neill put on bonfire in Co Tyrone, treated by police as a hate crime.
  • DUP representatives condemn the incident and call for effigy's removal from the pyre.
  • Leader Jeffrey Donaldson urges peaceful and positive Twelfth celebrations.
  • Bonfires lit ahead of parades cause some controversy but largely pass without major incident.
  • Flags, posters and effigies burned on some pyres treated as hate crimes by police.
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