Liam & Noel roll with it for festival
Conor marks 170th birthday of tricolour
Liam Gallagher WARRING Liam and Noel Gallagher have agreed to play at the same festival – but will be 540km apart.
The Oasis stars have signed up for The BBC Biggest Weekend festival which will take place across four venues in May.
Noel, 50, will play in Perth in Scotland while his 45-year-old brother will be on stage in Coventry.
Liam joked: “We’re getting closer and closer, we’re gonna collide mate one day and who knows what will happen?”
That meeting nearly did happen as after Noel signed up as Saturday’s headliner he said he would prefer the Sunday gig in Coventry so he could see the Champions League Final. But he was unaware BBC bosses were already lining up his brother.
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CONOR Mcgregor posted on Instagram yesterday to mark the 170th anniversary of the Tricolour.
The 29-year-old Dubliner has famously worn the flag with pride when taking to the octagon prior to his fights.
The UFC champ is often draped in the green, white and orange after his bouts.
In his post, the dad of one mentioned how the white resembles the peace that exists between our “connected nation”.
He said: “170 years ago Ireland’s Tri-colour was first raised! I’ve raised it high and with pride since!
“The green for the south.
The orange for parts of the north.
“And the
White is for the peace that we have between borders as a connected nation.
“I have multiple blood-soaked Tri-colour flags that I have taken back from battle, on home and foreign soil.
“Ireland is a nation that has proven its ability to fight. A nation that has fought to be free. Either border. We are a power nation. Ireland, I love you and everything about you.”
On March 7, 1848, the Irish flag was flown for the first time by Thomas Francis Meagher in Waterford city.
Meagher, a Waterford man and Irish American patriot, was part of the Young Irelanders’ 1848 Famine Rebellion.
According to Article 7 of the Constitution, he said: “The white in the centre signifies a lasting truce between the “orange” and the “green” and I trust that beneath its folds, the hands of the Irish Protestant and the Irish Catholic may be clasped in generous and heroic brotherhood.”
Ireland is a nation that has proven its ability to fight.. I love you CONOR MCGREGOR