Union Jack in Ireland? **Mod Note In Post #59**

No, and no.

A company I worked for had an annual inter-office 7 a side soccer tournament years ago. Big social occasion, and we'd all be flown over to the UK or Germany for it and a party after. One year, it was held in Shannon (where our office was). The astroturf pitches are on the grounds of the local GAA club (Wolfe Tones). They also have a bar there.

All the people from the various offices had their national flags, including the crowd from the UK. Next thing this guy comes barreling out of the bar, clearly the worst for wear, roaring and shouting about Brits and butchers aprons what he'd do to them. The manager of the bar then comes out and asks us to put away the Union flags, but the Irish, German, Luxembourg and Swedish ones could stay flying - turns out there was an after-funeral reception in the bar, and the attendees (many Shannon natives are originally from Northern Ireland) took great exception to the flags.

Shannon is a special case alright, as a massive amount of people from the north came to Shannon back in 70’s.

might not be so bad now , but knowing that pub well and the said location of pub, flying a Union Jack there if it was 10, 20 years ago they probably got off lightly.

actually if a Union Jack was flying there now I’m sure people would still take an exception to it :-D

Such a stupid lazy point this. ^^

So what?

You don't give allegiance to a country or government just because you follow a sports team.

**😁 I see my stalker is up early this morning earning his corn.

If I saw a union jack flag flying in some British guys garden in Ireland, I would think he was trying to cause offence and also I would think if Britain is so great why don't you fcuk off back over there? or is the social welfare too good in Ireland? lets face it a lot of their unemployed move here to get better social welfare payments, a great addition to the Country. 🙄

' it is not the Union Jack technically, it is only called the UJ when flown on a ship'

A commonly repeated myth.

Fair enough

whatever way you justify to yourself, but supporting a foreign team and then ranting and raving against that nations team is completely hypocritical

Why would they? They have issue with the British government not the people nor their football teams.

I love American movies and literature and the physical country but would be vehemently opposed to American foreign policy in a lot of instances. Does that make me hypocritical?

The added complexity here is what the British government is doing and has done. Nobody holds their fecking football teams responsible for that.

I couldn’t bide a union jack flying , but it would be fine for an English/ Scottish/ Welsh to fly their individual countries flag apart from norniron

thats bullcrap . The flag has a St George cross a st andrew saltire and a st Patricks saltire . Wales doesn’t even come into it , as when the uj was first introduced, wales was already a part of England

look up the wales and berwick act

Ok

To avoid any confusion this is what I had in my original post quoted from Wikipedia , I misunderstood your comment to mean not a union jack but it's decomposed parts, but you meant their current other countries flags.

"The flag consists of the red cross of Saint George (patron saint of England, which also represents Wales), edged in white, superimposed on the saltire of Saint Patrick (patron saint of Ireland), also edged in white, which are superimposed on the saltire of Saint Andrew (patron saint of Scotland). Wales is not represented in the Union Flag by Wales's patron saint, Saint David, because the flag was designed whilst Wales was part of the Kingdom of England."

You could wear the jerseys if at a match in England or Ireland as a visiting supporter, thats it. just my opinion.

Ask some of them if they've been to Turner's Cross or Tolka Park, and they don't know what you're talking about.

See below -

The constitutional names are deliberately vague as per De Valera's strategy. More ceremonial/aspirational than anything else. Which made more sense when the old Article 2 and 3 were there.

But the descriptor as in the place where the domain name of boards.ie is from is The Republic of Ireland, as per the 1948 Act.

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The real irony about some people's distaste of the Union Jack is that the Basque Separatist Group ETA who were supported by many Republicans have a Basque flag like this -

Always amused me.

It could cause fierce confusion in black and white film/photos.

And that's your prerogative. It's the ones who come back from Old Trafford, Stamford Bridge, etc, every other weekend, and go into full hypocrite anti brit mode over Poppies/Flags that are rightly called out.

Do you enjoy foreign holidays?

Or do you live your whole life in ireland, talking to irish people about irish things, whilst using foreign technology (as you read this) and bemoaning foreigners and their influence.

Here's a secret. Some of them are actually nice people.