Commonwealth Games chiefs in Northern Ireland are threatening to ditch the Ulster Banner used by its athletes in favour of a more inclusive flag. The country’s unofficial flag includes the red ...

For a place that’s so obsessed with ‘flegs’, it’s ironic that Northern Ireland doesn’t have a separate one to call its own.

Operation Banner began in 1969 ... The army was deployed because Northern Ireland's police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), was at breaking point and unable to contain the violence ...

By the 1960s Northern Ireland was beginning to reach ... naming Orange lodges after the Ulster Division and dedicating banners to those who had fought and died. Hundreds of members of Loyal ...