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Northern Ireland has had no legal flag of its own since 1972, the flag people are trying to use in this template was the flag of the Governor General a role that ceased in 1972, when the Northern Ireland House of Commons was shut down by Westminster, the flag is offensive to the Nationalist community in the north.--padraig3uk 07:50, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- There is no basis for your claim- a flag does not need to be sanctioned by the government- the UK government has never sanctioned the flags of Wales, England or Scotland for example. Astrotrain 09:25, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Actually, yes it does the Ulster Banner has about as much legal standing as the Irish tricolour - it should be removed from all page and replaced with a more neutral alternative.--Vintagekits 15:24, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- That is just an Order from the Secetary of State for NI to the NI Office- and it does not say the Union Flag is the legal flag of Northern Ireland- it merely states what days the UF should be flown from on buildings of the Northern Ireland Office in NI- funnily enough those same days the UF is flown in Great Britain from central government buildings. It only governs the offices of the NI Office- and is not binding on anyone else. The Ulster Banner as you call it is widely recognised as the flag of NI- and indeed appears in the infobox of the NI article here on Wikipedia, and all the other language versions. The Flag is used by other national bodies in NI as the national flag (football, Commonwealth Games...) It is POV to remove the flag from here, I suspect your pro-IRA/Irish Republican POV is to blame. Astrotrain 13:58, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
