Enniskillen Castle

No room for British #flegs in, erm, British Fermanagh…

Mick Fealty on June 11, 2013, 2:38 pm

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Aha, I wondered how long it would take. In today’s Irish News Fionnuala O’Connor that it is ‘time to give all our identities a rest’. But not in Fermanagh. It started with the council airbrushing an English flag of St George from the top of Enniskillen Castle in a leaflet, now, according SF MLA Phil Flanagan, it is time for the real thing to come down. The Fermanagh-south Tyrone MLA said the flag, which has been present at the castle …

See that #fleg in Enniskillen? Well, now you don’t…

Mick Fealty on June 7, 2013, 11:59 am

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Now relax… The St George’s flag still flies over Enniskillen Castle as a reference to two former British regiments raised in the town’s defence in 1689. Can’t say I’d ever noticed before, but apparently there’s a row brewing over it’s removal from a leaflet for the G8 Summit… Here’s the council’s reasoning… “The design team gave long and detailed consideration to the content and design of the leaflet. In relation to any decision around the inclusion of flags, the design …