However, his decision to have an Irish tricolour on display in his office alongside the Union flag angered some unionists.

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The days of the tricolour on Dzaoudzi, Mayotte's capital, could be numbered.

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People in the Champs-Elysees watched as the French Tricolour streamed from the fuselage of the aircraft and floated down on to the Arc de Triomphe.

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Medals awarded to a World War II pilot who risked his life to drop the French Tricolour over the Arc de Triomphe in occupied Paris in 1942 are being auctioned.

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As he stepped on to the podium, an Italian tricolour in his right hand and a wide grin across his face, the home fans let out a huge roar of appreciation.

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Sinn Fein's two ministers on the Northern Ireland Executive, Martin McGuinness and Bairbre de Brun, might refuse to work in the buildings should the Union flag be flown without the Irish tricolour at its side.

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