The BBC has apologised after broadcasting an Irish tricolour flag throughout the Queen’s Jubilee live performance at Buckingham Palace.
On Saturday, the company aired the inaccurate flag to signify Northern Eire throughout a section the place comic Doc Brown spoke of being ‘proud to be British’.
Through the montage, the display screen confirmed the England and Wales soccer badge, a Scottish flag, after which the tricolour flag.
These appeared as Doc referred to Wales, Scotland and Northern Eire by talking of ‘the pink dragon, shamrock and thistle’.
In fact, the tricolour flag is definitely used to signify the Republic of Eire which grew to become impartial from the UK in 1922.
The one official flag in Northern Eire is the Union Flag of the UK.
Viewers have been unimpressed by the error and have been fast to name it out on-line.
‘How can the BBC not know the flag of Northern Eire,’ fumed one. ‘Sums up the organisation.’
Echoing the same sentiment, one other penned: ‘A reasonably large mistake for the BBC to fob off as a minor incident… given the historical past between our 2 nations it’s an absolute horrendous insult to Eire.’
‘NI is such an after thought they couldn’t be ar*ed to seek out out what flag to make use of. That’s embarrassing,’ a 3rd stated.
The Beeb has since apologised for the blunder, with a spokesperson saying: ‘The wrong flag appeared in a short montage throughout Doc Brown’s look final evening. We apologise for the error and the sequence shall be edited on iPlayer.’
Sadly although, this wasn’t the primary time the BBC has apologised for mixing up the 2 flags.
Naga Munchetty was pressured to deal with the error after BBC Breakfast broadcast the flawed flag to signify Northern Eire throughout a section on quarantine guidelines in 2020.
Many audiences have been seething by the error and took to Twitter to name out the company for the ‘lazy’ blunder.
‘Now simply earlier than we go, we’d prefer to apoligise for a mistake we made earlier within the programme in a graphic sequence explaining journey quarantine guidelines across the nations of the UK,’ Naga stated on the time.
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