A Blessed Saint Patrick's Day to Ye

May the good Padraigh and all the Irish saints pray extra hard for ye this day, God knows ye mought be needing it. Mind ye don't drink more than ye can hold, now. HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY! Sláinte mhaith!
Irish graffitti...
"I blew hundreds of thousands of pounds on women and drinking - and the rest I just squandered." -George Best (footballer)

"It has been scientifically proven that people who don't drink and don't smoke live longer - and it serves them right!" - Moss Keane, Irish Rugby

"Apostles of freedom are ever iolized when dead, but crucified when alive." -
James Connolly, Patriot

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." - Oscar Wilde

"Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war." - Gerry Adams, Northern Ireland Politician

Countdown to Saint Patrick's Day

2010 Saint Patrick's Day celebrations worldwide!!

St. Patrick's Day 2009

Over a half million throng the streets of Dublin for the annual Saint Patrick's Day parade...

A wee bit o' the old blarney concerning our Irish American President, Barack O'Bama (aye, and surely ye've heard of the black Irish?) - from the LA Times...





Gerry Adams: Defend the peace. There is no going back...
QUOTE The political institutions, the Peace Process and Sinn Féin are as much a target of the perpetrators of Saturday night’s attack as those they killed or injured. That is why they have to be resisted – politically; democratically; peacefully. UNQUOTE
Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein party of Eire, March 12, 2009

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For the great Gaels of Ireland

Are the race that God made mad.

For all their wars are merry

And all their songs are sad

- G.K. Chesterton

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Happy St. Patrick's Day, Everybody!