£200k ‘bonfire diversion’ cash handed out at Belfast City Council

Roy Sproule: Belfast City Council gives £200k bonfire cash and Derry and Strabane Council rural development committee has turned down a grant of £2,000 to set up a new company website in Castlederg for the benefit of the entire community. Perhaps they should have said that it was for bonfires, burning tyres and pallets. Peter McCallion: Didn’t realise it all came from the same funding stream with the same conditions.

Glenn Dougherty: Nice summer holidays in the Bahamas for a few loyalist ‘community workers’. The travel agents are getting in extra staff tomorrow.

Betty McConkey: What about giving that money to the health service? They are going to need it when these fires cause problems to people’s lungs and chests.

Gerard Meighan: Same when I was young — without the tyres.

Ronan O’Hara: Next week, £500k for car thieves to stay indoors on Grand Theft Auto instead. James Thompson: This is where our rates go.

Philip O’Neill: Anyone want to come around to my bonfire? I’ll see if I can get any of that grant money for it.

Gilbert Eric Glenholmes: What is wrong with politicians nowadays? You want a bonfire, you pay for it. Myrtle Kane : That’s just mental.

Cliff Gill: Tell me this isn’t true. There’s my da’s hip operation cancelled (again).

Peter McCallion: Cliff Gill, the two things are not connected.

Ian Martin Wilgaus: That’s ridiculous.