This commemorative year would have been ideal to upgrade our national flag

Last Tuesday was a special day of proclamation, remembrance, and civic commemoration of the founding of our State.

All schools hosted ceremonial flag-raising and commemorative events, in remembrance of the 1916 proclamation of independence.

Given the multifarious perspectives, motley publications, and emblematic gestures being proffered around the 1916-2016 centenary commemorations, and given the historical ramifications, one might have thought the national flag would have come in for some creative renewal.