salsa-king

is it just an excuse for a booze up?

everyone seem to jump on the band wagon and have irish roots.

why isn't St Georges day promoted more for a big party?

JackClark

The short answer is Guinness.

spireite

Pc brigade don't like us English lot having celebrations

David Lock

It irks me that Adams and his sidekick are off to meet the President of the USA. I'd have thought Obama had better things to do than waste his time with these killers

No doubt they will be loudly condemning the recent killings - things that they would have been proud of just a few years ago.

dl

4X4BOB

It's an easy answer . . . . . . For the CRAIC!

TopBanana

They've asked the kids to come in to nursery dressed in green today. We live in Berkshire . I suppose it's just a bit of fun.

David Lock

Perhaps they could take some toy guns and make some "bombs" out of paper mache? A bit of ketchup and some sticky out pretend bones for the "victims" even. d

Jamie

James O'Mara invented it so all the daft talking lepricorns can get pissed again

davegtt

As said, an excuse to get pissed...

TonyG

Isn't it just another American import - bit like Halloween, but with Guinness instead of Trick or treat?
Don't think I'll be celebrating it - don't like Guinness.

Jamie

Tony> James O'Mara was born in that silly land August 1873 he was a nationalist leader
he introduced the bill which made Saint Patrick's Day

Leslie

Maybe its because the Irish revere the memory of their patron saint. And its a good excuse for everyone else anyway!

Les

STi-Frenchie

It's a day for the Irish to celebrate their patron saint and their irishness and to welcome those who have any irish blood in their viens and also friends even if they aren't Irish.

Happy St Patrick's Day to one and all even if you aren't Irish. Hoist a drink, celebrate life and be joyful.

Fat Boy

Let me guess -you're either a Daily Mail or a Daily Express reader

Let's try some other sweeping generalisations, shall we? On St George's Day maybe the surrey nursery will ask all kids to come to school in white vans, with skinhead cuts, tattoos,a pit bull on each arm and a bucketfull of xenophobic ignorance to boot? No? Didn't think so...

I'm Irish and I consider your statement ill educated bollox of the highest order.

Jamie

TopBanana

Struck me as odd too... but I think he was referring to his earlier post.

CrisPDuk

The same thing was asked by the teachers at my neice's school


She's gone dressed in Orange today

JimmyBFC

I actually considered it quite funny



lol

SetoN

I'm not Irish but will be going out for a few Guiness tonight with my mate who trys his best to be Irish as his parents both are, bless him with his manc accent

Anyway, yeah just a good reason to have a drink.

I wish they did more on St. George's day, this country needs a bit a patriotism back. Saddens me to see so many people go out on St.paddys night but not even realise its St. Georges day.

Make it a public holiday and bring back the street partys, divert all business calls to call centres in Scotland, NI and Wales and let the party begin

SetoN

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

I've been horribly drunk on many a St. Patricks Day night and have no Irish blood in me whatsoever but just got into the Irish spirit I wish we did something similar for St. Georges Day, why don't the English celebrate it?

unclebuck

In your dreams. The NuLab PC brigade hate the english identity and do all they can at every opportunity to wipe it out.

Markus

Probably because we're pished every other day, so we don't need a special day as an excuse for it.

The plastic paddy's do make me chuckle, partly as I could puff out my chest and say in my best orish accent "Here's to me grandaddy Thomas" (whose parents were Irish, but moved to Chicago, where he was born and grew up there - thus he was actually a US citizen - eeew! - and then left and moved back to Ireland, but maintained an Irish accent throughout his life) and mix it with all the chappies who think they are Irish because their great-great-grandfather came from the fair and pleasant isle.

Leslie

I can do nothing but fully support that!

Les

CrisPDuk

Back before they relaxed the licencing laws, the Landlady of my local applied for a late licence for St Georges Day, and was denied
After every pub in the area had been granted one for St Patricks

bigsinky

^^^^^^^^^^^PMSL. you tell 'em paddy. the irish had a culture 3000 years before the egyptians ffs. what have you english got. even tolkien admitted he was saddened by the english mythos. "empoverish chap book myth", while the celts (irish, scots and even the welsh to some extent) had a thriving mythos and culture passed down for millenia. the Fir Bolg, Tuatha de Danaan, Milesians, Setanta (Cúchulainn in the Ulster cycle) etc. we have a heritage here in ireland and even though christianity only really came to the emerald isle from circa 4th - 5th century(by a welsh man no less), we all like to remember our pagan hertitage, we also have another language as well. Slàinte

New_scooby_04

iTrader: (4)

LOL Let's keep it good humoured folks, and refain from too many Irish jokes as they upset people....

With that in mind: Two Eskimo's walking across an iceberg, one turns to the other and says.
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Hey Paddy!

*Runs*

bigsinky

hey watch it, we play tig with hatchets over here, and i know where you live