St Patrick's Day- do you enjoy it?

snowflaker

Find its the most annoying cliche ridden days of the year!

I'm with the snakes, lets get the fook out!

Parades in a county town are so bad! Foresters marching! Isn't that an old lads drinking club???

Omackeral

And a Happy St Patty's Day to you. Two Irish Car Bombs please. I'm 1/4 Irish!!!

SEPT 23 1989

Pubs filled with people who don't usually drink during the day is my main gripe

Burial.

Omackeral wrote: »

And a Happy St Patty's Day to you. Two Irish Car Bombs please. I'm 1/4 Irish!!!

Story checks out. Irish car bomb me eye

xzanti

I like the fact that it's a public holiday. I enjoy the feeling that the seasons have changed and we've come this far in the year already. I like the general happy vibe that comes with the start of the day and seeing kids all dressed up and excited.

I don't like it post 6pm when the sh1t starts to hit the fan.

MilesMorales1

No. I don't drink and I'm not social, and given the nature of town today/dublin bus running a sunday service for some reason, means I don't got much to do today.

rainbow kirby

I'm at work and I get to cringe at people's terrible attempts at Irishness. I barely drink at all these days too.

I'm also not a fan of what the day represents - the squishing down of vibrant Celtic/pagan culture by an invading religion which has made things worse for the women of this country for the last 1,600 years.

osarusan

More fun when you are not in Ireland.

Truckermal

No I'm working and working all weekend too!:(:(

PTH2009

how did the snakes get there in the first place ???

how do we know the whole St Patrick getting rid of the snakes is the truth or that St Patrick was real or is he rep a number of people ???

anyway i like the day but not a fan when **** hits the fan at around 6pm, Like the club finals being on and some years we get Soccer and Rugby games on too

murphyebass

Watching a good mass here on rte. Mass on a Friday. Fantastic

whisky_galore

PTH2009 wrote: »

how did the snakes get there in the first place ???

how do we know the whole St Patrick getting rid of the snakes is the truth or that St Patrick was real or is he rep a number of people ???

Answer 1....the snakes were never in Ireland in the first place.
Answer 2....there was more than one converting people to Christianity and preaching around that time.

Wheeliebin30

We have a horrible culture in this country and today is the peak of it.

Drink, gambling, drugs and violence.

RobbingBandit

The traditional Spike Lee movie reenactment on Henry Street while a new tradition is fun to look forward to, he gonna git you sucka.

snowflaker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InS3YsrlgkY

We should call it Diaspora Day

RobbingBandit

whisky_galore wrote: »

Answer 1....the snakes were never in Ireland in the first place.
Answer 2....there was more than one converting people to Christianity and preaching around that time.

The snakes are in the Dail and the banks.

Wheeliebin30

RobbingBandit wrote: »

The snakes are in the Dail and the banks.

And in the general population.

DEFTLEFTHAND

I was just down town there (a country town) and it's already starting to get rowdy outside some of the pubs. Lads who look like they haven't slept, guzzling ale and shouting at passerbys.

Graces7

rainbow kirby wrote: »

I'm at work and I get to cringe at people's terrible attempts at Irishness. I barely drink at all these days too.

I'm also not a fan of what the day represents - the squishing down of vibrant Celtic/pagan culture by an invading religion which has made things worse for the women of this country for the last 1,600 years.

Something skewed re your history ideas there. Read the Annals recently? Online at C.E.L. T. a bloodthirsty lot they were the old celts

and the Celtic
form of Christianity was beautiful and fair before Rome too over.

Please do not blame Christianity for those who distort and abuse it

Patrick was grand, he really was.

irishguitarlad

I don't mind it. What I hate is when yanks start saying that they're Irish when it might be their great great great great great great grandfathers dog that was an Irish wolfhound or something like that. I have no problems if your grandparents or mom and dad were Irish but what I've said above annoys me.

Graces7

Only difference for me is that there is no postal delivery and it is one day that i WILL NOT GO OUT.

Which applies to most days anyway!

PTH2009

The whole world are making a joke of our culture today

Schools in Asia singing Irish tunes

Being in Ireland for St Patricks Day too some tourists is a dream come true

Django99

irishguitarlad wrote: »

I don't mind it. What I hate is when yanks start saying that they're Irish when it might be their great great great great great great grandfathers dog that was an Irish wolfhound or something like that. I have no problems if your grandparents or mom and dad were Irish but what I've said above annoys me.

That whole thing never really bothers me. Americans have no real culture to call their own because it's such a young country, so they cling to their ancestors culture. For some Americans that's Irish people who moved there a couple of hundred years ago. Not that long ago in the grand scheme of things.

Django99

PTH2009 wrote: »

The whole world are making a joke of our culture today

Schools in Asia singing Irish tunes

Being in Ireland for St Patricks Day too some tourists is a dream come true

I don't see it is making a joke. What's wrong with schools in Asia singing Irish tunes?

For a country as small as Ireland to make an impact worldwide, for pretty much every nation in the world to celebrate our heritage, is something to be proud of in my opinion.

Omackeral

Django99 wrote: »

That whole thing never really bothers me. Americans have no real culture to call their own because it's such a young country, so they cling to their ancestors culture. For some Americans that's Irish people who moved there a couple of hundred years ago. Not that long ago in the grand scheme of things.

And yet they're the biggest flag wavers on the planet.

U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A!!!

Django99

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

We have a horrible culture in this country and today is the peak of it.

Drink, gambling, drugs and violence.

I think you'll find all of those things exist in every country in the whole world bar none.

osarusan

PTH2009 wrote: »

The whole world are making a joke of our culture today

Schools in Asia singing Irish tunes

Being in Ireland for St Patricks Day too some tourists is a dream come true

Brilliant promotion if you ask me.

Eiffel Tower and other world famous buildings lit up in green, parades in many different countries, and so on. We take advantage of this by sending politicians off on trade missions too.

Fantastic exposure for the country, and in this way we are completely punching above our weight when you look at some countries with bigger populations and economies, who'd be delighted with that kind of focus on them.

ChikiChiki

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

And in the general population.

Unfortunately I actually agree with this to an extent. I dont think Irish people are as kind and friendly to each other as they are to outsiders when playing up to the 100,000 welcomes and friendliest country in the world tags.

A lot of begrudgery and constantly trying to take fellow countrymen down exists in our society. You'd see it displayed quite a bit under the guise of banter.

irishguitarlad

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

We have a horrible culture in this country and today is the peak of it.

Drink, gambling, drugs and violence.

That's a terrible comment, you should live in Spain for a while, they drink a way more than the irish.

Django99

Omackeral wrote: »

And yet they're the biggest flag wavers on the planet.

U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A!!!

True, it's like when Irish people emigrate at the moment. When they're abroad, they love being Irish and telling everyone they're Irish. When they come home, they love to complain about Ireland and tell everyone how good the country they just came back from is.

People are strange!

Wheeliebin30

Django99 wrote: »

I think you'll find all of those things exist in every country in the whole world bar none.

Not to the extent here.

You won't find bookies in the majority of countries in the world.

Bookies are like a second home to many in this country.

I won't even have to go into alcohol.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Django99 wrote: »

I think you'll find all of those things exist in every country in the whole world bar none.

Tends to be more prevalent on these shores though (Britain included), would you agree? You'll find different attitudes to alcohol on the continent.

I'm ashamed to say it but the drunken paddy stereotype seems to be based in a lot of truth.

Wheeliebin30

ChikiChiki wrote: »

Unfortunately I actually agree with this to an extent. I dont think Irish people are as kind and friendly to each other as they are to outsiders when playing up to the 100,000 welcomes and friendliest country in the world tags. A lot of begrudgery and constantly trying to take fellow countrymen down exists in our society.

We have horrible culture of people out for themselves and trying to scam as much as they can whether it be tax avoidance, welfare fraud, compo claims etc.

We aren't that nice of a bunch.

Wheeliebin30

irishguitarlad wrote: »

That's a terrible comment, you should live in Spain for a while, they drink a way more than the irish.

No no they don't.

What's so horrible about the comment?

It's the truth.

ChikiChiki

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

We have horrible culture of people out for themselves and trying to scam as much as they can whether it be tax avoidance, welfare fraud, compo claims etc.

We aren't that nice of a bunch.

Yes it exists, but its not an entire nation. All of the above could easily be solved by good governance which has been lacking since the foundation of the state.

I wholly agree with your sentiments on gambling. Horrific epidemic across the country.

Omackeral

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

We have horrible culture of people out for themselves and trying to scam as much as they can whether it be tax avoidance, welfare fraud, compo claims etc.

We aren't that nice of a bunch.

Speak for yourself there. The Irish fans in the Euros (as annoying as they were to me personally all over social media) were pretty much held in great regard when they went abroad.

Django99

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

Not to the extent here.

You won't find bookies in the majority of countries in the world.

Bookies are like a second home to many in this country.

I don't even have to go into alcohol.

Bookies seem to be even more plentiful in the UK in my experience. And there's a lot more money being gambled too by the looks of it.

The alcohol thing, there are plenty of countries that abuse alcohol to similar levels as Ireland. A Friday night in Dublin you'll see the same things in London, Moscow, Sydney and Boston. People like to abuse alcohol.

Wheeliebin30

Django99 wrote: »

Bookies seem to be even more plentiful in the UK in my experience. And there's a lot more money being gambled too by the looks of it.

The alcohol thing, there are plenty of countries that abuse alcohol to similar levels as Ireland. A Friday night in Dublin you'll see the same things in London, Moscow, Sydney and Boston. People like to abuse alcohol.

So the UK is worst only?

Great.

osarusan

Omackeral wrote: »

Speak for yourself there. The Irish fans in the Euros (as annoying as they were to me personally all over social media) were pretty much held in great regard when they went abroad.

Agreed. The 'We're a gas bunch of lads with our wacky antics' on social media is a bit grating, but in comparison to other countries' fans, they are absolutely held in high regard wherever they go.

Django99

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

So the UK is worst only?

Great.

Well no, Asians gamble much more money much more recklessly than Irish or U.K. people. They fill casinos 24/7 gambling obscene amounts, far more than the lads socialising in bookies do.

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Love Saint Patrick's Day.
Day off work, nice bunch of fresh shamrocks for the lapel, mass nice and early, followed by a lovely fry up in town, and newspaper, then lay a few bets on Cheltenham, then off to some local sports and a local fundraiser later, and perhaps the cinema tonight. Great day, and not a drop of poison required.

Django99

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Tends to be more prevalent on these shores though (Britain included), would you agree? You'll find different attitudes to alcohol on the continent.

I'm ashamed to say it but the drunken paddy stereotype seems to be based in a lot of truth.

Perhaps a little more prevalent but not to the level that's suggested in my opinion.

I think if you spent a Friday night in a nightclub in any major city in the world, Dublin included, you would see similar levels of alcohol abuse.

Míshásta

Django99 wrote: »

That whole thing never really bothers me. Americans have no real culture to call their own because it's such a young country, so they cling to their ancestors culture. For some Americans that's Irish people who moved there a couple of hundred years ago. Not that long ago in the grand scheme of things.

"Americans have no real culture to call their own" Are you joking? And the whole world imitating the yanks.

Just take music. Ragtime, Jazz, Blues, R & B, Rock 'n Roll, Bluegrass, Country, Gospel etc., etc. Is that not "culture".

That's the music that is the most popular in Ireland. Irish Trad even though flourishing, is very much a minority taste here.

Django99

Míshásta wrote: »

"Americans have no real culture to call their own" Are you joking? And the whole world imitating the yanks.

Just take music. Ragtime, Jazz, Blues, R & B, Rock 'n Roll, Bluegrass, Country, Gospel etc., etc. Is that not "culture".

That's the music that is the most popular in Ireland. Irish Trad even though flourishing, is very much a minority taste here.

I probably phrased that wrong. I meant more so in historic terms. They have nothing that stretches back hundreds of years because their country is not that old.

There's no stories like the St Patrick story in America, because the people who live there now haven't been there long enough.

Berserker

Complete pain in the ___ of a day. Roads closed where we live for some silly parade and if we decide to go into Dublin City centre later today the place will packed with drunks. Might go to a shopping centre for a few hours but they are going to be packed too. On a side note, why do people go to mass today? The day is of no significance to Christians.

vicwatson

And Sheelah day tomorrow eh (sounds like an Australian thing)

vicwatson

Berserker wrote: »

Complete pain in the ___ of a day. Roads closed where we live for some silly parade and if we decide to go into Dublin City centre later today the place will packed with drunks. Might go to a shopping centre for a few hours but they are going to be packed too. On a side note, why do people go to mass today? The day is of no significance to Christians.

Is there anything to be said for another mass?

Pete Moss

Not a lot of "stereotypical drunken Paddies" in here, but plenty of the stereotypical self-depreciating, inferiority complex, begrudging Paddies on show.

Keep up the good work lads.

Sam Kade

Omackeral wrote: »

And a Happy St Patty's Day to you. Two Irish Car Bombs please. I'm 1/4 Irish!!!

Let me guess you are 3/4 yank.

mosstin

Pete Moss wrote: »

Not a lot of "stereotypical drunken Paddies" in here, but plenty of the stereotypical self-depreciating, inferiority complex, begrudging Paddies on show.

Keep up the good work lads.

It must be a bitch when people don't see things exactly the way you do. Opinions eh?

Ol' Donie

I happen to like snakes.

Who the f*ck does this guy think he is?