{"id":719271,"date":"2026-01-25T07:27:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T07:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/719271\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T07:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T07:27:24","slug":"almost-half-back-keeping-ulster-banner-for-commonwealth-games-in-new-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/719271\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost half back keeping Ulster Banner for Commonwealth Games in new poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Ulster Banner will continue to be used by the Northern Ireland team at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow (Isaac Parkin\/PA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2.68197674.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Ulster Banner will continue to be used by the Northern Ireland team at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow (Isaac Parkin\/PA)<\/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)\">Almost half of people want to keep using the Ulster Banner as the flag that represents Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games, according to a poll.<\/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)\">However, as with many issues around flags and emblems, opinion is deeply split on the issue, with four in 10 voters saying there should be an alternative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ulster Banner will continue to be used by the Northern Ireland team at the Commonwealth Games in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1999,18527,42497,23249,1144,16,15],"class_list":["post-719271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-northern-ireland","tag-adrian-rutherford","tag-commonwealth-games","tag-gordon-lyons","tag-lucidtalk-poll","tag-northern-ireland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115954558212283330","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719271","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=719271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}