Police in Northern Ireland have opened a hate-incident investigation after a loyalist bonfire in Moygashel, County Tyrone, was topped with a model boat carrying about a dozen mannequin migrants and banners declaring “Stop the Boats” and “Veterans before Refugees.” The 50-plus-pallet structure, which also displayed an Irish tricolour, was set alight late on 10 July as part of pre-Twelfth of July celebrations that mark the 1690 Battle of the Boyne. The display drew condemnation across the political and religious spectrum. Sinn Féin MLA Colm Gildernew called it “deplorable” and an incitement to hatred, while Ulster Unionist Party leader and regional health minister Mike Nesbitt said it was “sickening” and “entirely out of step” with cultural festivities. Church of Ireland Archbishop John McDowell branded the effigy “racist, threatening and offensive,” and Amnesty International said authorities should have intervened before it was lit. A large crowd watched as the bonfire burned; firefighters needed nearly two hours to extinguish the blaze. The incident comes weeks after anti-immigrant violence in Ballymena and amid broader scrutiny of Eleventh-Night pyres, some of which have previously featured controversial symbols. Separately, the PSNI declared a major incident in south Belfast after Belfast City Council sought police help to dismantle another bonfire located near an electricity substation serving two hospitals.