his coffin was draped in an Irish flag with a black beret and gloves placed on top. At the weekend, Simon Harris used his inaugural speech as Fine Gael leader to criticise the tricolour being ...

A social media post about Northern Ireland which used an Irish tricolour has been removed by 10 Downing Street. An edited version of the Instagram post has now been uploaded without the flag.

Unionists will never accept the Tricolour as their flag in a united Ireland And that’s not just the view of hardliners, but fact most people in the Republic are unlikely to budge over the issue ...