Move the St. Patrick’s day festival

OU812

Cancelled again

How about we cancel the March public holiday, wait until we get a lot more people vaccinated and maybe temporarily move the holiday to September ?

Weather will be warm, air travel should be opening up, time to plan it.

KaneToad

OU812 wrote: »

Cancelled again

How about we cancel the March public holiday, wait until we get a lot more people vaccinated and maybe temporarily move the holiday to September ?

Weather will be warm, air travel should be opening up, time to plan it.

There is no guarantee that it would be viable in Sept either. An additional public holiday when possible, which has been talked about, might be a better bet.

Pixel Eater

Doubt we'll be totally out of the woods by September so it could still be cancelled again. Plus don't think it would be wise to invite tens of thousands of people into the country until the pandemic is truly quashed worldwide.

Leave Paddy's day where it is and let Tony work himself into hysterics over a troubled alcohol fixation.

Real Donald Trump

Tony said we might be able to have it in 2023

Harry Palmr

St Patrick's Day should be moved regardless - think of the majorettes legs!

Shift it to May 1st, instead of "pretend we're socialist day".

biko

There'll be no moving of days.
St Patrick's day is 17 March. If we can parade or not is irrelevant.

hynesie08

I am offended that you want to move this completely arbitrary date, the 17th of March is paddy's day because, em, it was the date he brought Christianity to Ireland according to a calender that didn't exist back then....


Move the whole thing, like that glorious year it was in May....

Yester

Yes and then push Easter to Halloween and Halloween to Christmas and Christmas to Easter 2022.

Thelonious Monk

Does anyone actually care about St Patrick's day celebrations? I have never known anyone to think of it as more than a day off.

Pintman Paddy Losty

Personally it made my day to hear it had been cancelled. The "festival" had become nothing more than a by-word for problem drinking and violence. A national embarrassment.


Hopefully a carefully curated virtual Paddy's day will allow us to show off a much more refined image to the world, than a load of men getting rat arsed and stumbling around temple bar.


Can't imagine there's too many non-cranks opposed to the cancellation of this event given where we are with the pandemic.

Hector Savage

Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »

Personally it made my day to hear it had been cancelled. The "festival" had become nothing more than a by-word for problem drinking and violence. A national embarrassment.


Hopefully a carefully curated virtual Paddy's day will allow us to show off a much more refined image to the world, than a load of men getting rat arsed and stumbling around temple bar.


Can't imagine there's too many non-cranks opposed to the cancellation of this event given where we are with the pandemic.

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Yester

Bring back Arthur's Day!

EmmetSpiceland

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Does anyone actually care about St Patrick's day celebrations? I have never known anyone to think of it as more than a day off.

The parade, local or “official”, can be good fun for kids. I wouldn’t recommend hanging around Dublin City for too long after though.

Once the sun goes down you get the underage drinking and the older creeps coming out in “force”. Normal people steer clear, for the most part. The sheer volume of vomit on the street you see if you’re in town the day after is a disgrace.

Yester wrote: »

Bring back Arthur's Day!

It was fun for awhile when it was a pint after work but it got way out of hand. The gigs were fine but scenes like naked lads breakdancing on broken glass in the middle of Templebar and playing each other’s mickeys like guitars really took away from the “spirit” of the day.

I think they’ve got this call right. No harm in us, as a nation, “drying out” for a spell. The pubs will open up again in the, not too distant, future.

OU812

OU812 wrote: »

Cancelled again

How about we cancel the March public holiday, wait until we get a lot more people vaccinated and maybe temporarily move the holiday to September ?

Weather will be warm, air travel should be opening up, time to plan it.

Things won't be normal by September.

Hector Savage

Last year I was saying there will be no 2021 St. Patricks day celebrations and was called a conspiracy doom mongerer ... and yet here we are ..

505_

Wouldn't be in favour of moving it. Hopefully by 2022 it'll be ok to go ahead again.

randd1

Leave Paddy's Day alone. It's fine where it is.

However I have a suggestion; 2 national holiday periods. First off, remove Good Friday as anything official. In essence, it becomes just another Friday.

The first national holiday period would be at Christmas obviously. All shops, pubs restaurants etc are to close at 2pm Christmas Eve (which also becomes a bank holiday), stay closed for Christmas Day, and can only open on Stephens Day after 2pm.

The second would be in the summer with the good weather, and start on the first Thursday (taken from Good Friday) & Friday in July (bank holidays), with the following Monday also a bank holiday. The Friday would be national charity day, where communities raise money for local causes. All state and part state owned amenities would grant half price entry over the 5 day period.



This wouldn't affect your own statutory holidays entitlement, and it breaks up the year big time. It's also just after when the schools finish, giving parents a bit of time with their kids.

Aongus Von Bismarck

My local club reached the hurling club finals a few years back so I flew into Dublin for the St Patrick's weekend. First time I'd been home for the holiday in many years.

The trip to Croke Park itself was highly enjoyable, but I was shocked at the scenes in Dublin CC afterwards. Empty cans and pools of vomit everywhere, crowds of teenagers harassing people, a woman urinating outside Penny's on the main street of our capital city. Off-license sales should be banned this year as well.

Hopefully the cancellation this year will allow people to actually spend time with their family instead of getting stupidly drunk. Time to reflect on what it means to be Irish on their national holiday. Show their patriotism by actually staying at home and helping society as a whole. It might also give wider society a chance to reconsider what St Patrick's Day actually means apart from alcohol abuse, violence, tired clichés, and overbearing displays of paddywhackery.

Cerveza

Could be worse she could have ran a scour out her derrière. We will take a shot of urine any day.

corner of hells

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

My local club reached the hurling club finals a few years back so I flew into Dublin for the St Patrick's weekend. First time I'd been home for the holiday in many years.

The trip to Croke Park itself was highly enjoyable, but I was shocked at the scenes in Dublin CC afterwards. Empty cans and pools of vomit everywhere, crowds of teenagers harassing people, a woman urinating outside Penny's on the main street of our capital city. Off-license sales should be banned this year as well.

Hopefully the cancellation this year will allow people to actually spend time with their family instead of getting stupidly drunk. Time to reflect on what it means to be Irish on their national holiday. Show their patriotism by actually staying at home and helping society as a whole. It might also give wider society a chance to reconsider what St Patrick's Day actually means apart from alcohol abuse, violence, tired clichés, and overbearing displays of paddywhackery.

Were they from your club ?

Atlantic Dawn

March 18th should be permanently added as another national holiday, it could be a recovery/reflection day.

Clonmel1000

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

My local club reached the hurling club finals a few years back so I flew into Dublin for the St Patrick's weekend. First time I'd been home for the holiday in many years.

The trip to Croke Park itself was highly enjoyable, but I was shocked at the scenes in Dublin CC afterwards. Empty cans and pools of vomit everywhere, crowds of teenagers harassing people, a woman urinating outside Penny's on the main street of our capital city. Off-license sales should be banned this year as well.

Hopefully the cancellation this year will allow people to actually spend time with their family instead of getting stupidly drunk. Time to reflect on what it means to be Irish on their national holiday. Show their patriotism by actually staying at home and helping society as a whole. It might also give wider society a chance to reconsider what St Patrick's Day actually means apart from alcohol abuse, violence, tired clichés, and overbearing displays of paddywhackery.

Spend time with their family? In fairness we’ve been doing that for nearly 12 months solid.

The one good thing that came out of covid is the cancellation of that day!!

Please don't move it

McGinniesta

Paddy's day is a pain in the bollix

Mimon

We need to have bank holidays in July and August, hek have one every month.

Work life balance and all that.

corner of hells

Mimon wrote: »

We need to have bank holidays in July and August, hek have one every month.

Work life balance and all that.

I've news for you about August.

fryup

McGinniesta wrote: »

Paddy's day is a pain in the bollix

i don't like it either, brings out the worst in the irish if you ask me

drunken blagardary

McGinniesta

fryup wrote: »

i don't like it either, brings out the worst in the irish if you ask me

drunken blagardary

its the deedly diedelly be jaysus begorrah nonsense ramped up that scalds my arsecheeks.

and non irish people pretrnding to be irish

Dravokivich

randd1 wrote: »

Leave Paddy's Day alone. It's fine where it is.

However I have a suggestion; 2 national holiday periods. First off, remove Good Friday as anything official. In essence, it becomes just another Friday.

The first national holiday period would be at Christmas obviously. All shops, pubs restaurants etc are to close at 2pm Christmas Eve (which also becomes a bank holiday), stay closed for Christmas Day, and can only open on Stephens Day after 2pm.

The second would be in the summer with the good weather, and start on the first Thursday (taken from Good Friday) & Friday in July (bank holidays), with the following Monday also a bank holiday. The Friday would be national charity day, where communities raise money for local causes. All state and part state owned amenities would grant half price entry over the 5 day period.



This wouldn't affect your own statutory holidays entitlement, and it breaks up the year big time. It's also just after when the schools finish, giving parents a bit of time with their kids.

Eh... Good Friday isn't a national holiday here.

New Year's Day (1 January)
Saint Patrick's Day (17 March)
Easter Monday
First Monday in May
First Monday in June
First Monday in August
Last Monday in October
Christmas Day (25 December)
Saint Stephen's Day (26 December)

jaffa20

Extra bank holiday for July and September please

whisky_galore

McGinniesta wrote: »

and non irish people pretrnding to be irish

Overblown overhyped leprechaun hatted shyte. A collection of goose pimpled majorettes, marching bands, gobshytes on stilts and "hilarious" floats.

An excuse for "Real" Irish to act the maggot after dark.

randd1

Dravokivich wrote: »

Eh... Good Friday isn't a national holiday here.

New Year's Day (1 January)
Saint Patrick's Day (17 March)
Easter Monday
First Monday in May
First Monday in June
First Monday in August
Last Monday in October
Christmas Day (25 December)
Saint Stephen's Day (26 December)

An unofficial one. Government institutions, and some businesses, treat it as such. Move it to July and remove the ambiguity around it altogether.

magic_murph

Who cares about a plastic paddy night out - people are dyeing around the country so missing out on a couple of over priced pints is hardly a big miss.
Priorities people.

EmmetSpiceland

magic_murph wrote: »

Who cares about a plastic paddy night out - people are dyeing around the country so missing out on a couple of over priced pints is hardly a big miss.
Priorities people.

Careful now, M. There’s some around here that think this is all a “plot” by the evil anti-drink mastermind Dr. Tony Holohan.

Gregor Samsa

Move Paddy's day to Easter. Move Easter to May Day. Move May Day to June BH. Move the June BH back to Easter, and move Paddy's day to August BH. Move the August BH to Pancake Tuesday, but on a Thursday instead. Keep Halloween as it is, but make it in September instead - but Swap September with October. Make Christmas Eve the day after Christmas Day, and Steven's Day the Day before Christmas Day. Then move Christmas day to the day after Christmas Eve but before Steven's Day. New Year's Day obviously needs to stay where it is, it would make no sense to move that.

magic_murph

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Careful now, M. There’s some around here that think this is all a “plot” by the evil anti-drink mastermind Dr. Tony Holohan.

If that was actually true then we should all tip our hats to Mr Holohan for being a genius.

Aongus Von Bismarck

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Careful now, M. There’s some around here that think this is all a “plot” by the evil anti-drink mastermind Dr. Tony Holohan.

That's one of the more amusing things I've read from a cohort of posters around here. Posters who I doubt are known for their sense of humour at the best of times thinking that Dr. H is somehow using his power and influence to stop poor auld Paddy from having his few pints of porter down the local. Real conspiracy theory type stuff. Most of them probably have too much time on their hands to be honest.

kenmc

Can we move it far far away? Like outer Mongolia perhaps?

ShooterSF

Why not. It was moved in 2008 so there's precedent. Up to the Catholic Church I assume? Rather than the govt.

Badly Drunk Boy

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Move Paddy's day to Easter. Move Easter to May Day. Move May Day to June BH. Move the June BH back to Easter, and move Paddy's day to August BH. Move the August BH to Pancake Tuesday, but on a Thursday instead. Keep Halloween as it is, but make it in September instead - but Swap September with October. Make Christmas Eve the day after Christmas Day, and Steven's Day the Day before Christmas Day. Then move Christmas day to the day after Christmas Eve but before Steven's Day. New Year's Day obviously needs to stay where it is, it would make no sense to move that.

Any chance we could swap St Swithin's Day with Diwali, and have the Eurovision Song Contest held on a wet Tuesday evening in Stoke?