County Cork tartans and Arsenal tartan

[thanmuwa]

Two points re: Irish "crest" tartans:
(1) they aren't crests, they are the coats of arms of the various counties and as such are the copyright property of the Irish government, the copyright being vested in each local (county) authority. Not that the government does anything to enforce that copyright.
(2) not all of the arms are correct; certainly the arms of Dublin are not those depicted.
(3) while the city of Cork has arms, the county does not.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.

Regarding your 2 (or 3?) points:
1) Are the coats-of-arms of the 6 counties in the North copyright of the Irish government? I knew that the lighthouses in Northern Ireland belonged to the Southern Government, but I didn't know that one. Cool and thanks for the info.
2) Agree wholeheartedly.
3) That may be technically true, but the county does use the city's coat of arms, you see it on every county team's crest.

On the plus side, the vast vast majority of Irish people will call it Derry (like on your site Rocky) rather than Londonderry as on the House of Edgar one. Much easier on the eye, thank you.