Varadkar was speaking at ceremony to mark 175th anniversary of first raising of flag on March 7th, 1848
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at a ceremony to mark the 175th anniversary of the first raising of the Tricolour in Waterford. Photograph: Noel BrowneThe message inherent in the colours of the Tricolour “continues to inspire”, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said at a commemorative ceremony in Waterford on Sunday.
He was speaking at a ceremony to mark the 175th anniversary of the first raising of the flag on March 7th, 1848, at the Wolfe Tone Club on Waterford’s Mall by Young Irelander Thomas Francis Meagher where it flew for eight days before being removed by the then authorities. The flag had been presented to him as a gift by a group of French women sympathetic to the cause of Ireland and to symbolise the aspiration towards unity of Irish Catholics and Protestants
“Thomas Francis Meagher was a major figure in Ireland’s struggle for independent. His portrait hangs in the Taoiseach’s office,” Mr Varadkar said.
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