I was returning home to Waterford from watching Barack Obama interviewed by Fintan O’Toole in Dublin’s 3Arena – “the arc of history still bends towards justice”, we heard Obama say, but sometimes (and here I’m paraphrasing) you have to give it a good, hard yank – when I saw my first one.
It was fluttering in the breeze, visible to anyone crossing the bridge into Waterford city. There was a second Tricolour across the road, on the other side of the bridge. Later, I would see more on a large roundabout near the hospital.
You have seen the flags yourself I’m sure, wherever you live. They began appearing in Dublin’s north inner city in late August and have been spreading like a dose of ringworm around the capital and then the rest of the country.
RTÉ analysis has found the first mentions of the campaign to festoon the streets in Tricolours came from anonymous social medi
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