january utc there is no neutral alternative and i'm not going to repeat the officialness argument yet again personally i think that the ub resembles the st george's cross too much and that thiswould be a better future alternative for ni however wikipedia can't just start making flags up and must reflect things as they are at present it is understandable why some may not like the fact that the ub has been displayed prominently by militant loyalism as outlined in flag articles linked from the ni page but why should such loyalists be able to hijack the only signifcant flag that has ever represented ni as a region many people also don't like the irish tricolour either because of it's association with militant irish republicanism but does that mean that militant irish republicans should be allowed to hijack the tricolour and we should demand that the tricolour is removed from the republic of ireland flag of ireland pages