Ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow 2026, a debate on whether or not Northern Ireland should have its own flag has sparked. The official flag is the Union Flag, although many people believe ...

The national flag of Ireland, frequently referred to in Ireland as 'the tricolour' and elsewhere as the Irish tricolour, is a vertical tricolour of green, white and orange. The proportions of the flag ...

The chair and chief executive of the Commonwealth Games board in Northern Ireland want Stormont to design a new flag for the region. While that might seem like an audacious request, it is merely ...

Now there is a real embarrassment about one figure wearing an Irish flag on a global stage, all that time sniggering at Bono makes us look very weak indeed. In 2002, Time magazine ran a cover with ...

In preparation of the 2026 Commonwealth Games, members of Northern Ireland’s governing body have stated that they want to create a new flag for the event. As you can expect, this has sparked ...

The Grand Secretary of the Orange Order has said that the move towards ditching the Ulster Banner as the flag of Northern Ireland’s athletes risks ratcheting up “community tensions”.

The office of Commonwealth Games Northern Ireland (CWGNI) has been closed amid online threats over a proposal to change the flag that represents the region’s athletes. CWGNI chief executive ...

At the Olympics, the athletes can either compete under a Union Flag (Team GB) or a tricolour (Team Ireland), but at the Commonwealth Games, the Ulster Banner is the standard flag displayed on ...

A similarly miffed Darragh Kirby added: "Wrong flag - that's the Republic of Ireland's flag and the team is an all-island team that incorporates players from Ireland and Northern Ireland." ...

The first celebration of the U.S. Flag's birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's ...