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Quoted from Max

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That’s sad to hear. But isn’t Konr’s flag sweden/england or something?

You can change to any currently existing flag, but no new multi-flags will be made for players.

Quoted from garden

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I understand your trepidation, but still refusing to allow the flag is itself a political act. Inaction doesn’t equal neutrality. Not really helped either by allowing the tricolour. I understand your reasoning, but from the outside it does not look good.

Not happy about this, but there seems to be little one can do about it.

If you don’t add the flag, that’s fine. But I can’t list it as my country on my profile, even without a flag? You cannot deny it is a country.

Why not just use the Irish tricolor? It’s about as close as you can get to an Irish flag.

Quoted from Freakie

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Why not just use the Irish tricolor? It’s about as close as you can get to an Irish flag.

Not exactly. Tricolour became a flag in 1922, one year after Republic of Ireland got independence from Great Britain while Northern Ireland stayed in the union. Before both parts of Ireland used Saint Patrick’s Saltire when they were both in the UK.
30 years later in 1953, northern Ireland got it’s own flag Ulster Banner, but after the government was abolished in 1972 the flag is used only by loyalists, while nationalists decided to use tricolour. I found out however what is the official flag of the Northern Ireland and according to the mr. Nicholas Scott which was in the British government after the abolition the flag of the Northern Ireland is Union Jack.
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1986/jul/25/flag-of-st-patrick

Quoted from garden

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I understand your trepidation, but still refusing to allow the flag is itself a political act. Inaction doesn’t equal neutrality. Not really helped either by allowing the tricolour. I understand your reasoning, but from the outside it does not look good.

Not happy about this, but there seems to be little one can do about it.

If you don’t add the flag, that’s fine. But I can’t list it as my country on my profile, even without a flag? You cannot deny it is a country.

Would you feel satisfied if we add Northern Ireland with Union flag? People will be able to see that you’re from the Northern Ireland in the new design which shows country’s names on the user profile.

Quoted from Bulow

First example of Hansard being referenced on ETF2L?

If you allow the Scottish, Welsh and English flags, then there is no reason to not allow the N.I. flag, since, funnily enough, their official flag is also the Union Jack.

That’s propably what we will do.
It would be easier if we could stick to the UNs opinion on everything, but we already added England, Welsh and Scotland.

Quoted from CHERRY

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That’s propably what we will do.
It would be easier if we could stick to the UNs opinion on everything, but we already added England, Welsh and Scotland.

You can claim to be copying FIFA’s views, if it makes any difference.

Quoted from Bulow

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You can claim to be copying FIFA’s views, if it makes any difference.

Which is making a flag for every quoestionable territory like Gibraltar :p

yeah I think there is definitely something to say for consistency. If Scotland/Wales have the same status as NI and have flags, the only reason not to give NI a flag is to not upset people. However, some people will be very upset as a consequence

Quoted from Freakie

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Sri Lanka has been culturally and politically disinvolved with India since basically forever and Kosovans are more Albanian than Serbian. Northern and Independent Irishmen are all Irish, unlike the examples you provided.

I think the Kosovan analogy still holds, even if I bungled it a bit. and that is simply not true. I am not even remotely Irish.