Replica of mosque set alight on bonfire condemned in Northern Ireland

A replica of a mosque, placed on a bonfire in a pro-British town near Belfast, was set alight on Thursday night before police had a chance to remove what they described as a “hate display” that was condemned by politicians across the region.

Bonfires are lit across the British region in mainly Protestant “loyalist” neighbourhoods on the eve of July 12 commemorations of William of Orange’s victory over the Roman Catholic King James at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690....