Would you stay in a place flying the "Butcher's Apron" ?

Jobs OXO

Seems to be causing some kerfuffle - possible intentional?

http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/news/intimidation-campaign-against-hotelier-for-flying-butchers-apron-union-jack-35729848.html

Would you stay in such a hostelry??

Yes.

magentis

No

suicide_circus

Loads of hotels in Dublin put out flags but I don't think I've ever seen the Butchers Fla....I mean Union Jack. They generally go with the seperate English/Welsh/Scottish flags

osarusan

Wouldn't bother me in the slightest, unless I was in danger from Neanderthals who wanted to do damage to the place.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Absolutely. I have stayed in hotels with all kinds of national flags flying - even some in the UK with the Irish flag displayed.

amcalester

How much is it a night and are the sheets clean?

Don't much care about flags.

Dr Crayfish

Nationalism is for idiots

RayM

Not until they give us back the occupied six.

Wouldn't bother me.

whoopsadoodles

Yes for the mostpart and have done before.

If I was in the north of ireland and it was the only flag flying, then no.

sjb25

Well 800 years etc etc but if the rooms are cheap yes yes I would

greencap

If in ireland it would be a slight negative, wouldnt stop me, but wouldnt encourage me either. May slightly push me towards a competitor.

As for harassing the guy, as per the story, thats just trolling. Too much time on their hands. Like the 'you must wear a poppy fags'.

Yourself isit

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Nationalism is for idiots

So you wouldn't stay anywhere with flags? Limiting.

Widdershins

It's not intentional. He seems like a nice enough man and he has flown other flags for guests of other nationalities. When will people let this stuff go..

Obviously this will descend into another us vs them argument

Fratton Fred

This is a lovely country, with lots of lovely people. It is such a shame there is a minority of small minded bigotted twats that somehow manage to get far more oxygen than they deserve.

The Highwayman

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Nationalism is for idiots

Social justice and communism are for fools who will end up in the gulag.

No I would not stay in a place in Ireland who choose to fly that abomination of a flag.

The Highwayman

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Nationalism is for idiots

Social justice and communism are for fools who will end up in the gulag.

No I would not stay in a place in Ireland who choose to fly that abomination of a flag.

corner of hells

The Highwayman wrote: »

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Nationalism is for idiots

Social justice and communism are for fools who will end up in the gulag.

No I would not stay in a place in Ireland who choose to fly that abomination of a flag.

The Highwayman wrote: »

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Nationalism is for idiots

Social justice and communism are for fools who will end up in the gulag.

No I would not stay in a place in Ireland who choose to fly that abomination of a flag.

So good you had to post it twice.

Neon_Lights

Apply this logic to when you're abroad, this would mean if there was a union jack outside the hotel you were staying or a union jack on the menu, that you would neither eat or stay in the place.

amcalester

Neon_Lights wrote: »

Apply this logic to when you're abroad, this would mean if there was a union jack outside the hotel you were staying or a union jack on the menu, that you would neither eat or stay in the place.

The only reason I know what to eat when I'm abroad is because of the Union Jack in the corner of the menu.

Agricola

If it was some big chain hotel flying a dozen flags out the front and the Union flag was one? Then yes.

If it was in East Belfast in an area with more red and blue bunting than a royal wedding, probably not.

Yourself isit

He could fly the English, Scottish or Welsh flags.

I personally wouldn't care - I once lived in a country which flew the union jack as its state flag and the people were lovely.

But.. this is just over the border in Donegal. A lot of Catholics flee northern ireland, particularly in July, to flee flegs. Flegs that look exactly like that and that represent a history, and a recent history at that, of a supremacism represented by that flag.

Dr Turk Turkelton

Yourself isit wrote: »

He could fly the English, Scottish or Welsh flags.

I personally wouldn't care - I once lived in a country which flew the union jack as its state flag and the people were lovely.

But.. this is just over the border in Donegal. A lot of Catholics flee northern ireland, particularly in July, to flee flegs. Flegs that look exactly like that and that represent a history, and a recent history at that, of a supremacism represented by that flag.

At last,someone has finally spelled fleg correctly.

wakka12

I knew the thread title would mean the british flag lol

HeidiHeidi

I wish there was a rule on board that you had to quote the relevant bit of articles that you start threads about.

I try to avoid at all costs giving that Indo rag any oxygen by clicking on their links - anyone care to enlighten me as to what was in the article?

amcalester

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I wish there was a rule on board that you had to quote the relevant bit of articles that you start threads about.

I try to avoid at all costs giving that Indo rag any oxygen by clicking on their links - anyone care to enlighten me as to what was in the article?

Hotelier in Donegal flies Union Jack to welcome guests from GB.

Locals go nuts and threaten the hotelier.

mikemac2

Mr Rohan, who was born near Clones in Co Monaghan but has lived in the south for most of his life

Does the journalist know where Monaghan is

...And Justice

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Nationalism is for idiots

Simon coveny? Is that you?

Mint Sauce

Yes, why not. Its just a flag.

HeidiHeidi

amcalester wrote: »

Hotelier in Donegal flies Union Jack to welcome guests from GB.

Locals go nuts and threaten the hotelier.

Which hotel/where?

OldMrBrennan83

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