‘Kay,
just to show that pols are pols the world around, let’s talk about Patrice
Hardy, a Sinn Féin member of the Mid- and East Antrim Borough Council, in
Northern Ireland.
Hardy
wanted to show her solidarity with the goals of the Easter Rising on social
media by a spot of flag waving.
Except
she slapped up thirteen icons of the flag of Côte d’Ivoire, not the Republic of
Ireland.
(Personally,
I’d have smacked her one upside the head for using ten exclamation points in a
row.)
Côte d’Ivoire
Ireland
Yeah,
I understand it’s kind of an easy mistake to make, especially if you’ve already
started your celebration. But if you’re an Irish nationalist in Ulster, you
really ought to make the extra effort to not look like a prize gobshite. Especially
if you’re trying to make A Statement.
P.S. A
couple of years ago a football club shop on the Shankill Road in Belfast
(ground zero for Protestant unionism and UVF thuggery) had
countries-of-the-world flags strung across their front window to celebrate the
World Cup. Shop staff actually had to put up a note informing outraged members
of the public that the tricolor flag they had was from Ivory Coast, not
Ireland.
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