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Billy McQuiston

McQuiston faced three men seated at a table on which rested a Bible, gun and an Ulster Banner.

Cross-border flag for Ireland

This is the flag of the nine-county province, similar to but distinct from the Ulster Banner, the former flag of the Northern Irish government.

Flag of Northern Ireland

The Ulster Banner remains in use by unionists, a number of sporting organisations in Northern Ireland and some local government authorities under Unionist control.

Glenarm

On 21 September 1996 a Protestant, Kenneth Auld (47), died four days after being stabbed in a dispute involving the flying of a Ulster flag in Glenarm.

Man Dancin'

The group travel in a van ironically painted with the Ulster Banner which was gifted to them by Billy Maddison (Ron Donachie), an Ulster loyalist gangster and old acquaintance of Jimmy, who wanted to assure the Catholic community that the church attack was not an act of sectarian violence.

Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games

At the games the Northern Ireland team uses the flag of the former Government of Northern Ireland, the Ulster Banner as its national flag.

Northern Ireland flags issue

The Ulster Banner, the flag of the pre-1973 government of Northern Ireland, was used from 1953 to 1972 by the Stormont government to represent the government of Northern Ireland.

Red Hand of Ulster

It was later included in the now abolished Government of Northern Ireland flag.

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