MASKED loyalists yesterday appeared to defy a court order banning material being added to an Eleventh night bonfire.
Men wearing balaclavas and scarves over their faces could be seen using a cherry picker to stack pallets on top of one of four pyres at the centre of a controversial injunction.
Belfast City Council secured a High Court order last week preventing bonfire builders extending the sites amid concerns about public safety and damage to property.
However, masked men were photographed at Inverary playing fields yesterday afternoon lifting pallets onto the pyre.
Loyalists have reacted angrily to the injunction, which Sinn Féin has said was supported by all parties on the council.
Unionists have remained silent about the legal action, although the DUP and PUP yesterday issued a statement accusing republicans of engaging in a "cultural war".
Belfast City Council said it would "review any information received - either directly or via the police - relating to any persons allegedly breaching the injunction, and will consider what further action is appropriate".
Amid confusion over whether the order prevents the lighting of bonfires tonight, it said it "does not make any specific reference to lighting".
Sinn Féin has said the council should go further and remove all bonfire material - and called for councils outside Belfast to also consider injunctions to deal with dangerous pyres.
Mid and East Antrim councillor James McKeown said: "Statutory agencies, and I include councils in this, need to take a far stronger stance."
Meanwhile, Sinn Féin and Alliance election posters have been placed on a bonfire in the Conway Street area near Belfast's Shankill Road.
Posters belonging to Alliance leader Naomi Long and Sinn Féin’s northern leader Michelle O’Neill, along with party colleagues Paul Maskey and John Finucane, were among those placed on the huge pyre.
The letters IRA and INLA, a tricolour and an ISIS flag were also hung from the bonfire.
Mr Finucane, a son of loyalist murder victim Pat Finucane, called last night on the Orange Order to speak out about the "hate crimes that have taken place at these Eleventh night bonfires".
