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I always thought, fly the tri colour with the union jack or fly none at all. Same with other symbols.
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I always thought, fly the tri colour with the union jack or fly none at all. Same with other symbols.
While I don't like to see the Union Jack there is absolutely no logic for flying the tricolour at stormont. For the time being the sovereignty question has been addressed by the Good Friday Agreement. The North is a part of the UK so only their flag should be flown.
As for the symbols, the article mentions that only a third of the 93 symbols could be considered as being associated with a unionist/British/royal tradition. Stormont's history is obviously associated with Unionism. This smack's of Sinn Fein trying to rewrite history again.....
But will the shoppers in O'Connell Street, gazing up at the flagpole on the GPO, buy into your theory?Originally Posted by dazzler
McElduff must be one of the dimmest MLAs on the Stormont benches.
There is the Stormont flaxtree flag - which is fine. As the head of the Culture, Arts and Leisure committee McElduff better focus on resolving the Irish Language Act issue and the Maze site problems with Poots rather then coming up with this kind of headlining grabbing nonsense.
"The thing that always annoyed me about traditional Irish historiography was the paradox of its Anglocentrism. People are now prepared, I think, to confront the possibility that many Irish problems are, in a sense, indigenous to the Irish situation." Roy Foster (1989).
i think its a fair request. its a power sharing government, the FM and DFM both have the same powers. Why should it be all one sided?
Why not have both traditions celebrated?
"If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain"
Its not one-sided. Its an inventory. Most of it is in storage and IMHO should probably be sold off.
And most people in Northern Ireland are sick to death about the whole flag issue.
Today we'll get a new first minister and a reshuffle.
Let them get on with the job without any of these distractions. And that goes in particular for McElduff.
"The thing that always annoyed me about traditional Irish historiography was the paradox of its Anglocentrism. People are now prepared, I think, to confront the possibility that many Irish problems are, in a sense, indigenous to the Irish situation." Roy Foster (1989).
The Flaxtree doesn't fly from the mast at Stormont. In my opinion it should and should be the only flag there.
We should be shaping an Ireland based on full respect for the human and civil rights of all our people, an Ireland of which Larkin and Connolly would be very proud.
Sean Farren
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