Blue Flag with White Star

jameshayes · 29-02-2008 9:20pm #1

Anyone seen these flags hanging out of car windows?

What are they all about?

Acid_Violet · 29-02-2008 9:26pm

My mum saw some secondary school boys trying to take them off someone's car today, probably some rival rugby school's flag.

jameshayes · 29-02-2008 9:40pm

Yeah, I seen them around the Darty/Milltown area... Hmmm....

Gyalist · 29-02-2008 9:42pm

jameshayes wrote: »

Anyone seen these flags hanging out of car windows?

What are they all about?

St. Mary's College in Rathmines school colours. I know that their Senior Cup team beat CBC Monkstown earlier this week to reach the semi-finals. that is the reason you're seeing the flags.

FunkZ · 29-02-2008 9:50pm

I'm interested in buying these flags, anyone know where I can get a few?

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Zaph · 29-02-2008 10:06pm

Either St. Mary's or there's a hell of a lot of Somali's in Dublin all of a sudden

Somalia flag

jameshayes · 29-02-2008 10:12pm

I should have guessed really - they were all on suv's & mammy wagons

Sam Spade · 29-02-2008 10:42pm

Gyalist wrote: »

St. Mary's College in Rathmines school colours. I know that their Senior Cup team beat CBC Monkstown earlier this week to reach the semi-finals. that is the reason you're seeing the flags.

They beat them in the semi-final, They are now in the final against belvedere

Gyalist · 29-02-2008 10:57pm

maxsmart wrote: »

They beat then in the semi-final, They are now in the final against belvedere

Thanks for the correction. I was at my cricket club earlier this evening and they were discussing the Senior Cup but I wasn't paying close attention.

Manic Moran · 01-03-2008 12:19am

Could also indicate a one-star General in the US Air Force...

NTM

BDubliner · 01-03-2008 6:40am

Its mandatory for Sex offenders to have one on their cars and on the front of their houses. www.garda.ie

WooPeeA · 01-03-2008 9:49am

I found that:

> The Bonnie Blue Flag, a single white star on a blue field, was the flag of the short-lived
> Republic of West Florida. [1] In September 1810, settlers in the Spanish territory of
> West Florida revolted against the Spanish government and proclaimed an independent
> republic. The Bonnie Blue Flag was raised at the Spanish fort in Baton Rouge on
> September 23, 1810. In December, West Florida was annexed by the United States and
> the republic ceased to exist, after a life of 74 days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Blue_Flag

Wishbone Ash · 01-03-2008 9:58am

Zaph wrote: »

or there's a hell of a lot of Somali's in Dublin all of a sudden

That's what I thought!

IanCurtis · 01-03-2008 1:33pm

Gyalist wrote: »

St. Mary's College in Rathmines school colours. I know that their Senior Cup team beat CBC Monkstown earlier this week to reach the semi-finals. that is the reason you're seeing the flags.

Oh jesus.

What the hell is the world coming to.

kowloon · 02-03-2008 2:17am

Manic Moran wrote: »

Could also indicate a one-star General in the US Air Force...

NTM

Yup, they're really scraping the barrel these days

flanum · 02-03-2008 2:52am

is it only dubs that tread these boards??

what feckin rival rugby team?? what feckin dart??? i havent seen any flags today in cavan, the only darts i saw were stuck in a board in the local!!!

Dord · 02-03-2008 3:10am

flanum wrote: »

is it only dubs that tread these boards??

what feckin rival rugby team?? what feckin dart??? i havent seen any flags today in cavan, the only darts i saw were stuck in a board in the local!!!

Go back to your pig farm there's nothin' to see here!

Mweelrea · 02-03-2008 9:52am

Zaph wrote: »

Either St. Mary's or there's a hell of a lot of Somali's in Dublin all of a sudden

Somalia flag

hehe:D

gcgirl · 02-03-2008 9:59am

http://www.acc-tv.com/images/globalnews/rgn_somalia_0107.jpg

the flag sure looks like the St Marys flag!

zAbbo · 02-03-2008 10:00am

the Dallas Cowboys are in town

It wasn't me! · 02-03-2008 12:52pm

Funny, I can't drive around Dublin without seeing rakes of them, but it's a small school. It just seems to have a disproportionate representation in the flag-bearing driver community. Only about 450 pupils.

jimi_t · 02-03-2008 1:10pm

It wasn't me! wrote: »

Funny, I can't drive around Dublin without seeing rakes of them, but it's a small school. It just seems to have a disproportionate representation in the flag-bearing driver community. Only about 450 pupils.

You're forgetting the legions of past pupils and families/relations. Talk about it as ridiculous but the Senior Cup final is in landsdowne and the big JCT matches and the rest of the senior cup matches are in donnybrook usually. I remember when we were playing the JCT final a few years ago the crowd absolutely wiped the floor with that at the previous leinster match.

Zaph · 02-03-2008 1:11pm

Why does anyone actually give a sh1t about school sports anyway? Something odd about grown men caring about how well their old school has done in the Leinster senior cup, IMO.

It wasn't me! · 02-03-2008 1:16pm

jimi_t wrote: »

You're forgetting the legions of past pupils and families/relations. Talk about it as ridiculous but the Senior Cup final is in landsdowne and the big JCT matches and the rest of the senior cup matches are in donnybrook usually. I remember when we were playing the JCT final a few years ago the crowd absolutely wiped the floor with that at the previous leinster match.

Sure I know, I went there myself, but to be honest it does seem to be legions of parents in people carriers and SUV's doing it, and I struggle to conceive how 450-odd students can have about two and a half million parents driving around Dublin. Mighty odd.

Zaph wrote: »

Why does anyone actually give a sh1t about school sports anyway? Something odd about grown men caring about how well their old school has done in the Leinster senior cup, IMO.

School sports is the route into provincial and international sports. Guys I went to school with play for Leinster and Ireland, and were being examined and watched for that likelihood when they were 16, so it's pretty important. Also, they'll likely still be in occasional touch with their old coaches and teachers. I still talk to my old teachers at matches and the like, and it was far from unheard of to see Denis Hickie swanning around chatting with old acquaintances in my old school.

02-03-2008 1:26pm

St mary's pupils parents prob earn more than the whole of Somalia.

Zaph · 02-03-2008 1:59pm

It wasn't me! wrote: »

School sports is the route into provincial and international sports. Guys I went to school with play for Leinster and Ireland, and were being examined and watched for that likelihood when they were 16, so it's pretty important.

Important that coaches and scouts see them, yes I understand that, but why some guy who left the school 30 years ago still cares about it unless he has a son playing is beyond me. When I left school that was it, I no longer cared about how the various teams fared after I left. Maybe it's only really a rugby school thing, as they seem to have better organised past pupils associations than most other schools?

It wasn't me! · 02-03-2008 2:21pm

Possibly. I know mine is a pretty big deal and we were all given free membership when we graduated and such. I suppose a lot of it is seeing the guys you left school with at the same matches and such as well. I still go to my old school's matches, and imagine I probably will for quite some time to come. Schools' rugby makes for some great games too.

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