Missing tricolour query prompts laughter in Dáil
The absence of the national flag from the Dáil caused laughter today.
Mayo TD Michael Ring told the Dáil’s sittings this morning that the tricolour must be flying on Government buildings when the parliament is sitting, but it was nowhere to be seen this morning.
The chamber erupted into laughter when the Fine Gael backbencher blamed the incident on Sinn Féin’s parliamentary leader Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin.
Raising the issue during Leaders’ Questions, the Fine Gael member said: “Every morning I come in here I look up at the building where the house is sitting and I see the tricolour.
“This morning when I came in the colour was missing.”
Addressing the Ceann Comhairle speaker Rory O’Hanlon, he added: “I want to ask do you know anything about it or does Deputy Ó Caoláin know anything about it?”
However, Mr O’Hanlon said he understood there was a “difficulty with the rope to suspend the flag and it was being attended to as a matter of urgency”.
