From top: Sylda Fleming; Eileen Rowder; above from left: Jenny Cairns; Mel Cairns, Ken Cairns and Stephen Cairns.
The Cairns family.
Purveyors of distinctive defiant tricolours for more than half a century.
Mark writes:
Prospect Designs company off Camden Street in Dublin have been making flags for over fifty years and are the official manufacturer of the Irish flags. A family-run business Ken Cairns said anytime you see a Government Minister in their office with the Irish flag behind them, also the flags for the President’s office and the flag flying at the top of the GPO it was made in Prospect Designs. They’ve produced Irish flags which have ended up on Mount Everest, in the North Pole, in the Palaces of Arabian Princes and even in outer space. And also the famous ‘Angela Merkel thinks we’re working’ flag during Euro 2012…
Prospect Designs
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
That’s neat, I never thought about where flags are made in Ireland. Now I know !
Blessed are the flag makers.
If they make the orange variety, who make the gold ones? (Ask a Broadsheet Reader / Flag-Maker).
no one.
Idiots who don’t know what the flag of Ireland is but think they’re more “Orish” because they don’t include the colour representing William of Orange and understand the whole symbolism behind the flag…. perhaps.
G’wan the Sylda Fleming! Fine work by Santry’s finest!
Oi! Get those flags off the floor!!
+1
Don’t they have to be burned if they touch the floor? Seem to remember something about it from my Sea Scout days.
I need to get a swastika flag made up.
Do you think these guys will do it? Or will they have a “conscientious clause” against it?
I think the Nazis would have had a conscientious clause against non-Aryans touching their flag/bum wiper.
There is a growing demand for ISIS flags. You might sell a few at the Grafton Barbers, if their website is anything to go by.
It was ” Angela Merkel thinks we’re at work “.
Without wanting to seem over sensitive, some people seem to think that defacing the flag with slogans is highly disrespectful. Personally, I don’t care, but it seems like something that people who are “into flags” wouldn’t take kindly to.