Loyalists have got themselves in a right flutter over paramilitary flags, especially those concerning the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).
Every Marching Season, loyalists always design a flagpole full of new emblems to plaster over their flags.
And there's more trouble on the horizon as next year sees the centenary of the formation of Edward Carson's original Ulster Volunteers to combat Home Rule in Ireland.
Basically, loyalists need to design a new commemorative flag for the 1912 Volunteers, otherwise the existing banners will be seen as a coat-trailing exercise for the UVF death squads which were formed in the 1960s.
Flags supporting other loyalist death gangs, such as the Ulster Defence Association, Ulster Freedom Fighters, Red Hand Commandoes and Loyalist Volunteer Force are plainly obvious to the Catholic community.
But how is that same community – as well as numerous Protestants – expected to swallow the bitter medicine that the current UVF flag actually honours Carson's Volunteers, which became the 36th Ulster Division and were slaughtered at the Somme in 1916?
And the problem will increase for those Unionists who want to honour the centenary of the Larne gun-running in 2014 and the Somme centenary itself two years later.
In April 1914, around 100,000 guns and one million bullets were smuggled into the north – mainly through the staunchly Unionist port of Larne – to arm Carson's Volunteers for the expected showdown with the Irish Volunteers.
The Ballyclare flag debacle in Co Antrim over the 12 July period left the peelers with red faces.
The next couple of years could see the North plastered with UVF flags allegedly celebrating Carson's Army. Unionists and loyalists now have so many commemorative flags, that if the wrong one is pulled down, the riots kick off.
To republicans, the Union Jack is 'the Butcher's Apron'; to Unionists, the Irish tricolour is 'the Mask of Murder'. But we should remember that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
The flag design issue should not be written off by republicans as 'yet another Prod only problem'.
Nationalist militants have just as many commemorations to mark in the coming years, and flags would be a good way of honouring those events.
In 2013, the centenary of the formation of two of the major organisations which took part in the 1916 Dublin Easter Rising – the Irish Citizen Army and the Irish Volunteers – will occur.
What about a flag to mark the 90th anniversary this year of the original IRA which fought in the War of Independence in 1921?
If Queen Bess can lay a wreath in Dublin's Garden of Remembrance to honour those who fought against Britain, surely the modern-day generation of those republican families are entitled to fly a commemorative flag?
Next May also sees the 40th anniversary of the Official IRA's ceasefire, which effectively marked the disbanding of that organisation. Surely the Stickies will want a few wee parades and special flags for that event?
It's not just the erecting or flying of flags which can trigger problems. How many riots have flared across the North because of either demands for the removal, or the removal of certain flags themselves?
The stealing of flags from prominent locations is becoming just as contentious as erecting them in provocative places.
The situation could spiral out of control where the North reaches the laughable scenario as once existed at Stormont where floral decorations had to be guarded to prevent them from being attacked.
When MLAs return from their summer break, there should be a new law clearly designating what flags can be flown where.
In the meantime, the designers of flags for the Volunteers – whether Ulster or Irish – need to ask themselves a poignant question: will my flag honour those who served and died, or will they actually spark more violence and death?
