Lord Mayor of Dublin Ray McAdam has met the assistant Garda Commissioner for the Dublin region following the use of the national flag by anti-immigration campaigners in the city.
Tricolours have been erected without permission on lamp-posts and other public infrastructure in several areas of the city.
Residents in some areas have written to the council asking them to remove the unauthorised flags which they say have been erected by a “minority political grouping” which could “undermine people’s respect for the flag as a symbol of national unity”.
Several councillors have also objected to the unauthorised erection of the tricolour with Labour councillor Darragh Moriarty describing it as the “weaponisation” of the national flag in a malicious attempt to intimidate.
But is this racism or patriotism?
We were joined on The Agenda this morning by Aontu leader and Meath-West TD Peadar Toibin to get his thoughts on this.