Northern Ireland’s deputy leader urges calm before loyalist parades

Michelle O'Neill concerned about site of unionist bonfire, as tensions rise over post-Brexit trading rules

Northern Ireland's deputy first minister has urged people to celebrate peacefully before the start of the loyalist parade season, as tensions increase over post-Brexit trading arrangements.

Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill - who is deputy to the new first minister, Paul Givan of the Democratic Unionist party (DUP), in the power-sharing administration - called particularly for calm over a bonfire set up in a contentious site in north Belfast.