kihnu writes : "The world does not revolve around your "national holiday", sorry, where were you on march 17th? on the moon?parades in ireland, china, moscow, america, australia, it would seem, that, for one day at least, the world does revolve around this national holiday. Frankly RT can show whatever they want in their coverage of St. Patrick's day, however, I believe that someone wearing a certain flag and to associate it with Ireland, when in fact there is no connection, is totally ridiculous, and unacceptable. How about wearing Shamrocks on July 4th? Singing La Marseillaise on Australia day? The problem is not this person showing this flag being picked up in the background for a news report, that could happen anywhere, the problem is that people will start to think that Irish values are similar to those of American values, and that Ireland supports America, when, in fact, quite a lot of us don't. that's the problem. Your last paragraph proves how you totally miss the point: those people fighting for the confederate flag were not fighting for Ireland, but America. In fact, while they were off fighting someone else's war, their own people could have used them back home to fight an Irish war, for Irish people. Them fighting in America did not mean that Ireland supported them, we had our own serious problems, frankly, people fighting to keep their slaves would have been the least concern for the Irish who had to deal with famine, hunger, cultural and lingustic repression, and I could go on and on, but there is no need to, as you will inevitably miss the point either way.