The enduring power of symbolism and the different ways in which society deals with it.

With calls last week for Cork GAA fans to stop displaying Confederate flags at matches, American author Barbara Kingsolver says it’s time to let the flag go in her homeland too

An African-American singer who has lived in Cork for more than 17 years has urged the Rebel County’s GAA fans to stop flying the Confederate flag at football and hurling matches.

GAA president Aogán Ó Fearghail has called on Cork supporters to police themselves in relation to the appearance of the Confederate flag at matches.

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.

ANY society as familiar with the choreography around the grand sacraments of Catholicism as this one is will easily understand the power of symbolism. 

At Dooley’s Bait shop in Lexington, South Carolina, the talk around the worm bins and minnow tanks was dominated by one subject: Dylann Roof, a previously unremarkable local young man now accused of one of most shocking murders in state history.

A 21-year-old white man has been charged with nine counts of murder for an attack on a historic black South Carolina church, with media reporting that he had hoped his actions would incite a race war in the US.

A gunman who killed nine people during a shooting spree at a Charleston church should get the death penalty, South Carolina governor Nikki Haley has said.

A childhood friend of the man accused of shooting dead nine people inside a black church in South Carolina said he told him a few weeks ago he had “a plan”.

Barack Obama says the US would “walk away” from nuclear talks with Iran if there’s no acceptable deal.

The triage system of treating patients was developed by an Irish nurse on US battlefields, Robert Hume reveals.

A petition to change the name of a Florida high school named after an early Ku Klux Klan leader has gathered nearly 90,000 signatures.

Hundreds of Irish died in the Civil War battle 150 years ago, but they and 35,000 other dead Irish have not been recognised here, writes Damian Shiels.

A film divided against itself cannot stand.

Green, Blue and Grey.

I MUST respond to the comments made by Joe Moore of the Socialist Worker’s Party concerning the Confederate battle flag being flown by Cork supporters at GAA championship matches (Irish Examiner, August 6).

The banner that led Confederate troops in the Civil War will remain on Mississippi's flag.