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I quite like seeing Irish flags about when I travel. You often see them in the strangest of places, especially sporting events when nobody Irish has even qualified!...there's a time and place for flying the flag, I do like looking across the front of the pyramid and seeing all the different flags (the tricolour being one of them). I'm Irish, and insanely proud of it (can't explain why, I just am....and when I have lived abroad I feel even more strongly about it). Having said that, I'm not overly fond of seeing hordes of drunken, sunburnt, topless eejits in straw hats, draped in my national flag and stumbling around the place (I feel the same way about the flag being used as a sectarian symbol in Celtic Park too mind you, it betrays a misunderstanding of what the flag actually represents)....so, I'll agree with the sentiment expressed in this thread to a degree, but it's still nice to see something from home when you are away. It all depends on the context it's being used in. On a flag pole at the front of the pyramid = fine. On a drunken gombeen = Paddywhackery of the highest order...:blink:

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I quite like seeing Irish flags about when I travel. You often see them in the strangest of places, especially sporting events when nobody Irish has even qualified!...there's a time and place for flying the flag, I do like looking across the front of the pyramid and seeing all the different flags (the tricolour being one of them). I'm Irish, and insanely proud of it (can't explain why, I just am....and when I have lived abroad I feel even more strongly about it). Having said that, I'm not overly fond of seeing hordes of drunken, sunburnt, topless eejits in straw hats, draped in my national flag and stumbling around the place (I feel the same way about the flag being used as a sectarian symbol in Celtic Park too mind you, it betrays a misunderstanding of what the flag actually represents)....so, I'll agree with the sentiment expressed in this thread to a degree, but it's still nice to see something from home when you are away. It all depends on the context it's being used in. On a flag pole at the front of the pyramid = fine. On a drunken gombeen = Paddywhackery of the highest order...:blink:
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I quite like seeing Irish flags about when I travel. You often see them in the strangest of places, especially sporting events when nobody Irish has even qualified!...there's a time and place for flying the flag, I do like looking across the front of the pyramid and seeing all the different flags (the tricolour being one of them). I'm Irish, and insanely proud of it (can't explain why, I just am....and when I have lived abroad I feel even more strongly about it). Having said that, I'm not overly fond of seeing hordes of drunken, sunburnt, topless eejits in straw hats, draped in my national flag and stumbling around the place (I feel the same way about the flag being used as a sectarian symbol in Celtic Park too mind you, it betrays a misunderstanding of what the flag actually represents)....so, I'll agree with the sentiment expressed in this thread to a degree, but it's still nice to see something from home when you are away. It all depends on the context it's being used in. On a flag pole at the front of the pyramid = fine. On a drunken gombeen = Paddywhackery of the highest order...:blink:
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God oxegen is wild for celtic shirts and on other point usually taking place on 12th July weekend they can be rowdy to protestants and that is just bad and takes away from a festival atmos and gives off knacker mentality that is now met with mention of oxegen

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PADDYWHACKERY.

It's people like you that have held us back. Celebrating your Irishness. For what? What are you proud of exactly? Why do you want people at a festival in your own country to think youre Irish?

When I go to Glasto I'd like it if my accent was all someone needs to know I'm Irish. The tricolor also has political overtones that makes some people feel uncomfortable (me included). Its ignorant and classless.

I was born in Ireland and feel confident enough in my nationality to not broadcast it to the world. Flags are part of Glasto - I love them - but the overexposure and misplaced use of the tricolor gets my goat bigtime.

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