Wait, what? 🇮🇪

Wait, what? 🇮🇪 from ireland

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  1. Why did they choose saffron here? I though Gold was the confidently incorrect answer for people who think they’re too clever to say orange.

    Edit to add: India’s flag is Saffron, white, and green, so maybe they got their cue cards mixed up?

  2. So what colour is saffron?

    I always thought f it as yellow – as in saffron and blue on the Clare flag.

    But just googled and it seems to be a range of colours – which are mostly orangey … does it vary from country to country?

  3. Saffron, if you don’t mind. When I coming up it was salt and pepper and you were happy to have them.

  4. Afaik, the “green, white and gold” thing is a holdover from our days of our de facto rule by the Catholic church, with white and gold being the colours of the Vatican flag and gold being an easy swap for orange when you want to snub Irish protestants.

    For the sake of clarity, our flag is explicitly defined as green, white and orange in the constitution, article 7.

    No idea where they might be getting saffron from, except maybe they’re confusing it with the Indian flag.

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