Commonwealth Games chiefs want to ditch Ulster Banner for new ‘inclusive’ Northern Ireland flag

Portaferry’s Ciara Mageean proudly displays the Ulster Banner flag at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham High-ranking Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games officials are set for a tense and fiery Annual General Meeting next week after putting forward a controversial proposal to change the Ulster Banner flag at future Games. Conal Heatley, the Chief Executive of Commonwealth Games Northern Ireland (CWGNI), and Chairman Stephen Martin, the Great Britain gold medal-winning hockey star from the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, are the men leading the charge for change..