St. Patrick and Snakes

Nitpick: St Patrick (is supposed to have) arrived in Ireland in AD 432, not AD 6.

Either way, he did not banish any snakes. There have been no indigenous snakes in Ireland since the last ice age, which was between 10,000 and 30,000 years ago. In earlier periods of history Ireland was attached to the European mainland and snakes were plentiful. But the ice age destroyed their habitat and they died and, by the time the ice receded, Ireland was separated from the mainland by a sea barrier which snakes could not cross, so they never made it back to Ireland. Ireland had been snake-free for thousands of years before St. Patrick's time.

As for what species were found here when there were snakes in Ireland, there is no direct fossil evidence. But they would probably have been the same species as are still indigenous in Britain and in adjacent European countries - e.g. the adder, the grass snake, the European viper.

No. Because it's bollocks.

Back near the end of the last ice age were people giving out about climate change and how it would destroy the snakes habitat ?

Or were they just happy to get on with life safe in the knowledge that further generations would function fine without snakes ?

So far as we know there were no humans in Ireland before the last ice age. But, if there were, they and all trace of them were wiped out by the ice age, just like the snakes were. If, as you speculate, any humans in Ireland at the time were relaxed climate change, their relaxation was just as misplaced as ours is.

First question is which St.Patrick do you talk of? And did such a person exist? St.Patrick is a bit like all the people who claimed to have been in the GPO in 1916 or who were at U2s first gig etc. That's if you go by all the sites around the country named after him and who have stories about him etc

But if there were no humans there why was there climate change ?

Moral of the story.

Don't worry about climate change, nature will get it's own way every time.

No, I think Jesus' Ma was Cleopatrick.

Iceland the supermarket ? I doubt they ever had snakes on sale.

I thought he just moved them from parish to parish?

If anything they've grown arms and legs. They've also stuffed their face and became fat cnuts.

This sounds like a case for Tia Carrere from the programme Relic Hunters and her side-kick Dan Brown.

And I don't want to be a grammar Nazi but you spelt 'Church pue pew' incorrectly. (I pride myself on sniffing out any mistakes and inconsistencies, and I think I've found yours!)