The flags were apt symbols of the passions that divide Northern Ireland’s two contending groups: the 1,000,000 Protestants, who fear eventual absorption by the overwhelmingly Catholic Irish ...

There have been calls for loyalist flags put up directly outside a small Catholic church in Co Tyrone to be removed. Union ...

The union flag was stolen from outside a civil service building in Derry and replaced with the Irish tricolour.

But throughout this period, Ireland’s rugby team continued to play under a single flag. In 1998 the Good Friday Agreement helped bring peace to Northern Ireland.

Why stars are aligning for a new flag of Northern Ireland The Ulster Banner was raised at Augusta for Rory McIlroy... but now’s the time for a new one, free of the nasty baggage of history ...