If there is an unhealthy obsession with flags, and if there is such a cult as ‘fleggers,’ then it would appear that it exists mainly on what passes for the Left side of the political spectrum. Not a day passes now but that we are treated to another lecture on why the national flag is hateful, racist, divisive, needs replacing and so on.
Footage has been shared on social media of a group carrying a ladder and systematically removing tricolours from lamp posts in the north county Dublin village of Donabate – who are then approached by others who angrily remonstrate with them for flag removal. The group removing the flags includes Suzanne Young who stood as a local election candidate for the Green Party in the Rush-Lusk local election ward for Fingal County Council in June 2024.
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