Bonfires in Northern Ireland have cost the public more than £800,000 in clean-up, repair and protection bills in the past three years.
The scale of the spending by councils and other public bodies to address damage from summer bonfires is revealed in figures obtained by Belfast Live.
More than half-a-million pounds of the bill was incurred by the Housing Executive - including almost £214,000 boarding up properties to protect them from the flames and heat.
