The flag has many holes in it that may be bullet ... as it signals intent not at the British State but at the old rival of Irish Transport and General Workers Union’s, William Martin Murphy.

The Irish flag - or, in Irish, the 'Bratach na hÉireann' – was flown publicly for the first time on March 7, 1848 during that year's Young Irelander Rebellion in Waterford City at the Wolfe ...