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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

Mystery Palestinian flag continues to fly high over Dublin as removal deemed too risky

A Palestinian flag with the words
Authorities believe the Palestinian flag may have been attached to the top of the Spire using a drone. Photograph: Zoltan Szabo/Alamy

What goes up must come down – unless it’s a Palestinian flag at the top of Dublin’s tallest monument that no one knows how to remove.

The flag appeared on the 120-metre Spire on O’Connell Street last September and for seven months it has defied every proposed measure to take it down. Who installed it and how remains a mystery.

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