St. Paddys day parades

Evilution

Did anyone go to one?

Dingatron

At the Drogheda one.

"Oh look, theres a shed on the back of a lorry. Oh look, theres another one. Oh, was that a shed on the back of a lorry?" In fairness it wasn't bad this year and the kids were impressed. The funniest bit though was that everyone left because they thought it was finished, but 10 minutes later along comes the rest of the parade. :eek:

marco murphy

I think the Dublin one was a show...get it :P

The dublin one didnt impress me at all.
Other than that i stayed at home

jack shictt

i was going to go to the dundalk one, but the ideas of jippos beating each other up and stabbings arent my idea of a parade. i heard the guards where in this years one.

upmeath

jack shictt wrote:

jippos beating each other up and stabbings arent my idea of a parade

i was playing music at the navan one last year, and the gig was called off because there were no fewer than three stabbings around the town between midday and 3pm. now all offlicences have to close during the parade, but the lovely people of navan drink on their own streets, with the kids. what a great town, great community. old men who still think elvis sideburns are in fashion... wc or what?

Evilution

upmeath wrote:

but the lovely people of navan drink on their own streets

Proper order. I'd be all on for a party in the back garden if only the weather was better.

upmeath

proper order? navan is lawless. it's actually going to develop into the biggest kip this country will ever see. it's where knacker, commuter, bogger, pure hillbilly and junkie all meet in anarchy

Evilution

upmeath wrote:

it's where knacker, commuter, bogger, pure hillbilly and junkie all meet in anarchy

Surely you mean UCD here?
I know what you mean though - meath in general is a hole. I try as much as I can not to mix with any of the indiginous yokels though, but its hard.

upmeath

it's not really... you can't put a bad word in for dunshaughlin, slane, ashbourne, summerhill, oldcastle, nobber, bettystown, laytown, mornington, kilmessan, ratoath, anywhere! only certain parts of the big towns like trim and kells are no-go areas, but i must say that navan and athboy are absolute eyesores of towns. not for the outsider, let's just say. they're clanny and riddled with drugs and crime.

Ruu_Old

didnt go into the one in Oldcastle, i heard there wasnt much. Something like the FCA marching..err girl guides from the town, and oh dont forget the 5 or 6 tractors and the lorries from Millbrook foods

upmeath

sounds great

Ruu_Old

hours and hours* of fun for all the family.

*hour=10 seconds approx

upmeath

yeah like an hour in the lifetime of a rapidly reproducing, rapidly dying bacteria! like this green guy--->