Spoilsports: Minister banned from showing county colours

IT was hardly blue murder, more a case of bureaucracy gone mad.

Spoilsports: Minister banned from showing county colours

A Government minister and a TD have been reprimanded by staff at the Houses of the Oireachtas for displaying Dublin flags on their vehicles in the car park of Leinster House.

Minister for Sport Leo Varadkar fell foul of Oireachtas rules by brandishing a pair of royal and sky blue flags from his official state car — a Skoda Superb.

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