Just wondering, is it forbidden by law to fly the Union Jack in Ireland?
And if it's not forbidden would one be beaten up about it if he or she was flying the Union Jack somewhere?
Pick a team, any team. I'd sooner watch paint dry in comparison to that foreign sport which Irish people seem to love.
And London is the second largest irish city in the UK and Ireland.
Im sure some of ours are on the dole there also.
I wouldn't either. If prefer to watch paint dry😀
The British embassy does indeed fly their flags.
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.
The ‘little Irelander’ viewpoint. ^^^
‘If you look outside your country you can’t also be patriotic’
Neanderthal thinking we long ago stopped doing….mostly anyway. Very few insular people left.
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.
You're not likely to hear 'God Save the King' at Anfield and if you did, feel free to join in with the home fans booing it. Liverpool as a city is notoriously anti-royalist.
https://www.goal.com/en/news/why-do-liverpool-fans-boo-the-england-national-anthem/brksai15y4cw1vmddj2fbc6vz
You could wear the jerseys if at a match in England or Ireland as a visiting supporter, thats it. just my opinion.
Sorry, missed edit
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."
That’s the gas thing about wales and the patriotism . It was made a part of England with no fuss . They still use BoE notes and the Welsh high court is in London , not Cardiff . It’s not even on their ‘national’ flag but as long as they can learn welsh in school and get a national’ sports team they’re happy . Strangely Irish isn’t taught in the north and I don’t know about Scotland
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
Edit
Misunderstood what you said
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
Not sure what the UK Embassy's flag protocol is.
If you look at Google Street View, the latest images (May 2023) show the flag isn't flying. However, the December 2022 ones show the Union Flag flying beside the Ukrainian one. All the ones older than that show the Union Flag flying on one of the flagpoles, going back to 2009.
So I'm not sure what happened between December 2022 and May 2023.
Edit: Actually here's the protocol:
My Lords, our embassies are required to fly the Union flag— in fact, it is the diplomatic flag, which is the Union flag with the Royal Arms in the centre surrounded by a green garland— on all working days during office hours.
(https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2000-02-23/debates/79e866a7-fbad-42a7-ba41-85f068707d1d/UkEmbassiesUnionFlagFlying)
So it's possible the May 2023 images were taken on a weekend or out of office hours, when the flag would not be flying. But I don't live locally to the embassy to check whether it does indeed fly during the week days.
The Apple Maps street view image is from May 2023, and it shows the Union Flag flying. Unless you have some independent confirmation that the embassy has stopped flying the flag, I'm going to assume that your claim is based on the one Google Street view image from 2023, and that it was taken out of office hours when the flag wouldn't be flying, as per protocol.
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.
Just imagine if the lad flying the flag was also wearing a poppy? Jaysus.
Nothing lazy about it. It's absolute fact.
The same people who moan about British dominance in Ireland have no issue going over to Anfield and waiting patiently while "God save the King" is sung .
Absolute hypocrisy.
Why? A professional team made up of many nationalities is not the same as a national team and requires no allegiance to a country.
You could support PSG or Juventus or Bayern Munich and still be vehemently anti the national teams.
My son for instance loves Barcelona, has been to see them several times but hates the Spanish team.
Only a certain type of lazy Irish person rails about Irish people doing it against England though. Boring as….
whatever way you justify to yourself, but supporting a foreign team and then ranting and raving against that nations team is completely hypocritical
And we are a Republic. And the island is geographically called Ireland.
ARTICLE 4 : The name of the State is Éire, or, in the English language, Ireland.
Anyone who is worried about a Union Jack flying in Ireland, has a real inferiority complex in my view.
Most of the Republic has grown out of that and has far more confidence in themselves. It is the Republic's insecure neighbours who spend their days worrying about this type of thing - on both sides.
Fair enough
Exactly, clowns really, their whole sense of Irishness is a cartoon type of republicanism. Putting the "pub" in republican. All front and image. A very narrow knowledge of history and hard to take seriously.
' it is not the Union Jack technically, it is only called the UJ when flown on a ship'
A commonly repeated myth.
Theres a fùck ton of Union Jacks flying in Ireland. All up in the 6 counties.
Ireland has 32 counties.
I think the OP is talking about the Republic of Ireland.
that’s an interesting train of thought to have.
Would you feel the same way about visiting the UK wearing an Ireland jersey for instance or indeed an Englishman living here wearing one?
And many over there for many decades thought our unemployed used to go over there to better themselves. They were not wrong.
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