A part of our history, or a waste of money..........

[luther]

But I get the feeling that if this happened a few years ago, when there was a few more coppers in the coffers, people would be more inclined to have it brought back here as part of our national history..........

It would just be seen as a waste of money now............

[Doozer]

If it is real then it should be preserved. We fought hard enough for it just to sell it off to the highest bidder now. What if Big Ian or the queen bought it. We woukld hate for it to fall into 'enemy' hands once again

[benin]

If it is real then it should be preserved. We fought hard enough for it just to sell it off to the highest bidder now. What if Big Ian or the queen bought it. We woukld hate for it to fall into 'enemy' hands once again

new orange march big ian will walk down o connell street shouting freedom with the irish flag above his head....carlsberg dont do marches .....

[luther]

I wonder how many people know about the Irish flag and the meaning of the colours???

[Doozer]

Big Ian congratulates Celtic beating Rangers.

Carlsburg dont do politics but if they did...............

[Doozer]

I wonder how many people know about the Irish flag and the meaning of the colours???

Direct from Wiki

The green pale in the flag symbolises the older majority Gaelic tradition of Ireland. Green had long been associated with Ireland as a nation, and with the revolutionary groups within it. The orange represents the minority who were supporters of William of Orange. He, of the House of Orange and originally the Stadtholder of the Netherlands, had defeated King James II and his predominantly Irish Catholic armya the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. His title came from the Principality of Orange in the south of France that had been a Protestant bastion from the 1500s. It was included in the Irish flag in an attempt to reconcile the Orange Order in Ireland with the Irish independence movement. The white in the centre signifies a lasting truce between the two cultures and a living together in peace. The flag, as a whole, is intended to symbolise the inclusion and hoped-for union of the people of different traditions on the island of Ireland, which is expressed in the Constitution as the entitlement of every person born in Ireland to be part of the independent Irish nation, regardless of ethnic origin, religion or political conviction

There are exceptions to the general beneficent theory. Green was also used as the colour of such Irish bodies as the mainly-Protestant and non-sectarian "Friendly Brothers of St. Patrick", established in 1751. When the tricolour was designed in 1848 the Orange Order faced suppression and was in serious decline.
Irish tricolour "misrepresented" with gold instead of orange

It is claimed that often differing shades of yellow, instead of orange, are seen at civilian functions. However the Department of the Taoiseach state that this is a misrepresentation which "should be actively discouraged" .In songs and poems, the colours are often enumerated as "green, white and gold". Using "gold" in place of "orange" may variously be interpreted as simple poetic license, a throwback to the green and gold flag of nineteenth century nationalism, an identification with the papal colours of white and gold, or a desire to downplay the symbolism of "green" Ireland being in harmony with Orangeism.