{"id":608279,"date":"2025-12-02T22:24:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/608279\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T22:24:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:24:29","slug":"suzanne-breen-crowds-stay-at-home-as-latest-flag-protest-ends-with-a-whimper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/608279\/","title":{"rendered":"Suzanne Breen: Crowds stay at home as latest flag protest ends with a whimper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6e1067e7-e5f6-4e1e-821c-17c1fe189d0b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Some said the Palestinian flag would never fly from City Hall. Well, it did, and the world didn\u2019t cave in. It\u2019s 13 years since another flags dispute beset Belfast, but the row over the Union Jack was long and bitter, with riots and protests across Northern Ireland which attracted large crowds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Around 2,000 people gathered at City Hall on December 8, 2013, to make their voices heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some said the Palestinian flag would never fly from City Hall. Well, it did, and the world didn\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[5813,924,2194,94547,1144,1814,40401,29956,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-608279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-belfast-city-council","9":"tag-democratic-unionist-party","10":"tag-gaza","11":"tag-jamie-bryson","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-palestine","14":"tag-suzanne-breen","15":"tag-traditional-unionist-voice","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115652321584258398","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}