Cork fans' flying of Confederate flag after Charlottesville attack slammed

"Any Cork fan who carries the flag with a complete understanding of what it represents is an absolute langer."

Cork fans have been criticised for ignoring pleas not to fly the Confederate flag at Croke Park in the aftermath of a death at a white supremacist rally in America, writes Stephen Barry.

The flag was widely used at the Charlottesville ‘Unite the Right’ rally of far-right groups, where one protestor deliberately drove a car into a crowd of counterprotestors, killing one and injuring 19, including five critically.