Racism organisation calls on GAA to ban Confederate flag

Sport Against Racism Ireland (SARI) have called on the GAA to ban the Confederate flag from their grounds after a variation of it appeared in Fitzgerald Stadium at the Munster SFC final last Sunday.

Some Cork supporters have traditionally brought the Rebel Indian variation of the flag to matches associating the rebels with the county’s own nickname as well as the shared red and white colours.

However, the flag has become increasingly associated with racism in Europe and the US especially following its links to a gunman who shot dead nine African-Americans in South Carolina last month.