Unexpected Defiance at City Hall

23rd Apr 2004

The Flags at City Hall
Mickey Mouse

The plight for an independent Peoples Republic Of Cork has taken an unforeseen step forward in the last two weeks with the symbol of Irish rule in Cork, the City Hall, persistently flying Cork flags over the main door. In the run up to Easter the tricolour did not appear on the City Hall for an extended period time - enough to make a number of pro-Dublin councillors raise the issue in the media.

Other county and city halls around the Irish state are unlikely to be seen without the tricolour at Easter - acknowledging those who were executed for their part in the 1916 Easter Rising which heralded the start of the independence movement against occupying British forces.

City Hall's influential decision not to fly the Irish tricolour at this time of year is the first bold act of defiance to Irish rule in Cork that we have seen since the Patrick St. Uprising of 2002 when Roy Keane was forced home and over twelve million Corkonians piled onto the streets in support of the Mayfield man's unmerciful oppression at the hands of an anti-Corkonian institution (FAI).

Defiance at City Hall: The Green flag with coat of arms ( twisted around the pole) and the Cork2005 flag.

There are two flag poles above the main entrance to City Hall that have been flying a green flag and a black flag recently where the Irish tricolour usually flies. This is obviously a step-by-step process of provocation carefully planned by insiders who support an independent Cork state. The Cork flag flying there is actually a green flag but with the Cork coat of arms on it and the black flag is the Cork 2005 one - another symbol of the division between Cork and the other counties wishing to remain under the authority of Dublin.

Based on public reaction it is expected that they will then make their next move - flying a red Cork flag. When Peoples Republic Of Cork Hard Comhairle gains full control of the county there will be a Peoples Republic Of Cork flag flying 24 hours.

Unlike the Irish tricolour which is suppose to be put up at dawn and taken down at dusk there will be no need to do this with the Peoples Republic of Cork one. PRC Flags will come with technology inspired by sooped up wacker mobiles with ultraviolet lights in their floors driving in circles each evening around Cork city centre. The neon red flags will be visible from as far away as Mars and Castletownbere.

It is unknown whether the Irish tricolour at City Hall will be burned whilst flying or whether it will be recycled in line with the authority's 20/20 vision waste reduction programme.

At this time of year Irish Republicans revel in the opportunity to wave tricolours but too often those associated with terrorism hijack and bring shame to a flag that is suppose to represent peace. Militant republicans have used it for years associating it with their terror campaigns, draping coffins of known killers in the flag as if the acts of the deceased during his life were carried out with the consent or approval of the citizens of Ireland. With so many foreigners coming to live here is it any wonder that Corkonians now sideline the tricolour more out of embarrassment than for any direct nationalistic aspirations?

Dublin's Decentralisation Panic

Decentralisation is another lame attempt by the current Irish government to generate support in Cork for Irish unity and has struck fear into many of those 'foreigners' destined to experience the enhanced quality of life down here. Why fear you say?

Well hundreds of Dubliners (or citizens of the Greater Dublin Area which now appears to extend as far as Urlingford in Kilkenny) will be forced to move to a superior county - a move that has been greeted with terror by desperate Dublin based civil servants who feel they may be singled out as supporters of the current Fianna F·il regime and massacred in the Corkonian revolution. A government source has revealed that hundreds of civil servants destined to move south to the People's Republic are insisting they be given new identities to conceal their Dublin heritage.

"We've had hundreds of applications from people who are being forced to move to Cork, desperate to have their surnames changed to common Cork ones like McCarthy, Murphy and O'Sullivan for fear of recognition as Dubliners", the source revealed.

Although cynics might suggest that this bold move by City Hall is merely a ploy by local politicians to win more votes in the upcoming local elections the move must be acknowledged as another small step forward in securing our independence. One can only speculate what cheeky acts Lord Mayor Colm Burke and the gang at City Hall have planned but the Peoples Republic of Cork Hard Comhairle will be watching closely to see who is supporting campaign of independence which will reach new heights during the Cork's stint as European Capital of Culture in 2005. Rise up ye Rebels!