Mullingar Community College marks National Flag Day

Today, the eve of St Patrick’s Day, is our National Flag Day and Mullingar Community College are proud to be participating in this year’s event with the support of the Thomas F Meagher Foundation. It is an opportunity for the entire school community to celebrate and promote active citizenship and inclusivity in the school.

At the beginning of this school year, two fifth year students, Aaron Russell and Bobbie Archbold, were appointed as the school’s official ‘Maor Brataí’.

Aaron and Bobbie raise our school flags before the beginning of each school day and take down the national flag each evening before going home, just as protocol dictates.

National Flag Day celebrates the core values of peace, respect, diversity and inclusion which the Irish Tricolour symbolises. On March 7, 1848, the Tricolour was flown for the first time when Thomas F Meagher raised it in Waterford City.

“The white in the centre signified a lasting truce between orange and green. I trust that beneath its folds the hands of the Irish Catholic and the Irish Protestant may be clasped in generous and heroic brotherhood.” – TF Meager, 1848.

Aaron and Bobbie were delighted to represent their school in receiving a new Tricolour from the Thomas F Meagher Foundation and proudly raised it for the first time this morning.