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UK here. A UK flag is only flown from govt buildings unless it's some royal event or football but then it's usually the individual national flag such as England, Scotland, Wales, etc
The union flag & the St George cross (Englands flag) were co-opted by the far right in the 70s so flying one outside of the occasions named above had other people mark you as a bit of a nationalist & to be weary of you.
Northern Ireland is also part of UK. When I lived in the UK people would always ask me about northern Ireland because I'm Irish. My response: "It's your country mate, not mine"