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Move the St. Patrick’s day festival

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    #32
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,888 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #33
    randd1
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    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.


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    #34
    magic_murph
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    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.


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    #35
    EmmetSpiceland
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    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.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    #36
    Gregor Samsa
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    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.


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    #37
    magic_murph
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    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.


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    #38
    Aongus Von Bismarck
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    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.


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    #39
    kenmc
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    Can we move it far far away? Like outer Mongolia perhaps?


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    #40
    ShooterSF
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    Why not. It was moved in 2008 so there's precedent. Up to the Catholic Church I assume? Rather than the govt.


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    #41
    Badly Drunk Boy
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    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?


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