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Ulster banner may be dropped from Commonwealth Games
The banner was designed in Dublin in 1923 and is based on the flag of the traditional province of Ulster. It was adopted as the flag of Northern Ireland by Stormont in 1953 but ceased to have any ...
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Jim Allister decries proposal to axe Ulster Banner as the flag of Northern Irish athletes from head of Commonwealth Games in the Province
Conal Heatley, the chief executive of the body, says that because the Ulster Banner has no official status in the Province (it was the flag of the old government of Northern Ireland which ...