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It's not really quiet on the DUP front.
The Twelfth of July has come and gone, with Orange Order displays of 'culture' bigger than ever, featuring the same burning of Irish flags and stolen SDLP and SF posters as usual, plus this year a coffin with an effigy of Martin McGuinness attached on one bonfire.
The bonfires are usually enormous but were bigger this year than ever before.
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Sinn Fein's Westminster candidate in North Belfast, John Finucane, contacted police after learning that some of his campaign posters had been attached to a bonfire.
The solicitor son of murdered lawyer Pat Finucane tweeted a picture of the bonfire and said: "I have reported this hate crime & theft to PSNI to allow them to act urgently."
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said: "Burning images of politicians, the Irish national flag & tyres. What a warped interpretation of Ulster Protestant/unionist culture."
Yesterday, DUP leader Mrs Foster urged bonfire builders to show respect to others.
"Bonfires on the Eleventh Night have long been part of the unionist culture," she said.
"Those who have waged a campaign of demonisation against such celebrations should dial down the rhetoric.
"To those who build bonfires, I urge them to not play into the hands of those who want to demonise the culture. They should be respectful of their neighbours," she said.
"Endangering property and lives should not be a concern for residents on the Eleventh Night. These should be events that all the family can enjoy. We will work constructively with communities to achieve this."
Mrs Foster said she wanted Northern Ireland to move forward to a place where Orange culture was supported and respected by all.
"I do not want any culture to threaten or dominate any other," she said.
"A shared society in Northern Ireland must have room for all but without elevating or promoting one section of society above another.
"Despite the image sometimes portrayed, it is not politics that dominates the Twelfth July, however. It is the families who come together, as they have done for generations. It is the acquaintances that are refreshed in the field or on the street."
Mrs Foster said that the "celebration of civil and religious liberty" was central to the Twelfth.
"Hopefully we can all help build a Northern Ireland where there is respect, tolerance and support for all our cultures and traditions, celebrated equally with one another," she added...
...A PSNI spokeswoman said: "We take hate crime very seriously and actively investigate all incidents reported to us."
Arlene Foster does her damndest but there are some circles that will never be squared.
To the Orange Order, the phrase "celebration of civil and religious liberty" only means the victory of protestantism over Catholicism.
Take away the sectarian element and the Twelfth is nothing.