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11 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - New-look Irish passpor... · 1 reply · +35 points

An Irish passport costs less than a UK one

11 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Northern Ireland vote ... · 0 replies · +5 points

Lots of people will have both, not just in the nationalist community. It's widely thought travelling outside the EU on an Irish passport is much safer than using a UK passport

11 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Northern Ireland vote ... · 0 replies · +7 points

Would you rather De Valera took Churchill up on his offer of a United Ireland in exchange for assisting the allies?

11 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Orangemen offer parade... · 1 reply · +9 points

Yeah they only loyally dragged her out of her house, shot her 5 times then left her to bleed on the pavement. Nothing wrong with that

11 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Orangemen offer parade... · 1 reply · +15 points

The Orange Order tried that on Garvaghy Road, they brokered an agreement then broke it the following year. They haven't been back since.

The OO should have STARTED by talking to residents, not selling the prospect of negotiations at the cost of a march. They haven't learned anything

11 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - We always cling to our... · 0 replies · +17 points

lol "you are quite prepared to steal a country"

Careful now, glass houses and all that

11 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Sinn Fein mayor Mairti... · 0 replies · +10 points

It's the same flag, they were just homemade rebel flags and lacked standardisation until many years later. Sure some even got the colours in the wrong order! (the story goes even the 1916 rising tricolour had to be restitched on the day for this reason)

You'll find very few accounts that don't call the flag flown over the GPO an Irish tricolour

11 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Sinn Fein mayor Mairti... · 0 replies · +5 points

Actually he's right, that was the other flag flown. A green background with white and orange/gold writing spelling out Irish Republic

11 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Sinn Fein mayor Mairti... · 0 replies · +9 points

There were two flags flown over the GPO during the Easter rising, one was green with the words Irish Republic in white and orange/gold lettering on it which is on display in the National Museum of Ireland and the other one was a tricolour and is on loan to the American Irish Historical Society. I had posted a link but I guess it's not allowed on the BT comments section. A bit of Google Fu will bring it up though

Edited to correct inaccuracy

11 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Sinn Fein mayor Mairti... · 9 replies · +13 points

" It has never been used in any all-island way and was only adopted long after partition."
So the rebels raised it over the GPO in 1916 just to confuse everyone?

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