Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin is keeping a close eye on the ‘Operation Raise the Colours’ campaign, and he does not like what he sees. According to Martin, society must say no. ‘Watching what is happening in the UK, I don’t like it. We, so far, have resisted a lot of what has transpired in other societies,’ he said, with a detectable whiff of sanctimony.

Well good for us, but what Martin really means is that when it comes to English people raising English flags on English soil, it’s a case of Down with That Sort of Thing – before it catches on here. Even that most basic expression of expression of nationhood, flying the flag, is viewed as an act of sedition at the highest levels of government. ‘We are at a tipping point in Ireland – I’m concerned about it, and I think this has to be

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