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Why are republican bonfires in Derry being treated as ‘sectarian-motivated hate crimes’?

The local view is that a younger generation is being easily manipulated by dissidents, albeit few in number

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#7238
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07 Sept 2026, 11:46 UTC
Last checked
08 Sept 2026, 05:02 UTC
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Publisher
The Irish Times
Country
Ireland
Source published
18 Aug 2026, 05:00 UTC
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Byline
Freya McClements
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The local view is that a younger generation is being easily manipulated by dissidents, albeit few in number
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    Why are republican bonfires in Derry being treated as ‘sectarian-motivated hate crimes’?

    The local view is that a younger generation is being easily manipulated by dissidents, albeit few in number

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#7370
Observed
07 Sept 2026, 11:46 UTC
HTTP result
200 / parsed
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663,569 bytes, private gzip evidence
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news-ledger/0.1
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metadata and excerpt