From Mary McAleese to the Path to Power Podcast, the hysteria over our national flag continues. Newstalk’s Shane Coleman expressed his frustration over the growing “presence of tricolours everywhere” including, god forbid, “leafy affluent areas”.
Coleman fretted over how “intimidating” it must be for a migrant to walk down a street festooned with Tricolours – yet one could counter that it is, perhaps, a strange thing to move to a country whose national flag you’re afraid of.
In a recent effort to “reclaim” the flag, ads were placed across Dublin city centre claiming the Tricolour is ‘The Flag of All of Us’ and “A flag of welcome”. The flag is inclusive by design, but a national flag, definitionally, must be to some degree exclusionary, as its specific purpose is to demarcate one nation from another.
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