15
15 years gone. I'll be heading down to the grave on Saturday. Early. It's the 11th of July and Belfast and the rest of Northern Ireland will be teeming with flame-wielding idiots by early evening, so we'll drive down early and come home early to avoid the worst excesses of this bacchanalian horrorshow. In the past, we've had to drive round bonefires - always "bonefires" - swerving them like burning roundabouts in the middle of the road. The madness of rioting season seems to be getting worse. I expect more violence, more masked youths enacting pogroms. A bonfire was constructed in Bangor on a village green, circled by houses. The Housing Executive meekly supplied boards for the local residents windows, to stop them, what? Smashing? Melting? In Moygashel, a town with a population that is 98% white (and I fear for that two per cent) a 56 year old man was arrested because he'd placed the effigy of a mosque on top of the "boney". 56. He was born in...
