Belfast Council is to spend at least £72,000 this year on 12 beacons for the July Twelfth celebrations.
Minutes from the council’s Strategic Policy and Resources Committee dating from April 21st reveal the council fund for beacons going to community/voluntary groups.
The council item on the fund was initially heard in private away from the public and press in April, and at the May monthly meeting of the full Belfast City Council, the last meeting before the May 18 local elections, elected representatives green-lighted the published minutes, thereby ratifying approval for the funding.
