Where is has the Tricolour gone?

cork | rights, freedoms and repression | news report

Tuesday April 06, 2004 14:23

by Ted Tynan - The Workers Party, Cork

wpcork at eircom dot net

Thomas Ashe Hall, 15 Fr. Mathew Quay, Cork

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Cork City Hall fails to display Tricolour since January

The Workers’ Party has called on Cork City Council to explain why the Irish tricolour has not flown on City Hall for several weeks and is absent just a few days before Easter, which marks the single most important event in modern Irish history and which precipitated the establishment of the Irish State.

The Workers’ Party has called on Cork City Council to explain why the Irish tricolour has not flown on City Hall for several weeks and is absent just a few days before Easter, which marks the single most important event in modern Irish history and which precipitated the establishment of the Irish State.

Workers’ Party spokesman Ted Tynan said that since the visit to City Hall of the Taoiseach in January the tricolour hasn’t been flown at City Hall. Instead only the European Union’s blue flag, the European City of Culture flag and the City Coat of Arms are on display.

“The tricolour is the national flag of Ireland and is the flag to which the overwhelming majority of the people of this state pay allegiance. The EU flag was foisted upon the Irish people and seems to be increasingly replacing the tricolour in importance without public consultation. An example of this is the legal requirement for motorists to display the blue EU flag on car licence plates. The tricolour is being demoted to occasional ceremonial use”, said Mr. Tynan.

“Now a European Constitution is about to be launched as a done deal so it seems our Constitution will follow our national flag into oblivion”, said the Workers’ Party representative.