Irish man bitten by snake for the first time In history

Monday, March 9th, 2020

A 22-year-old man became the first person in recorded Irish history to sustain a snake bite, roughly 1,600 years after St. Patrick is said to have banished all serpents from that nation.

Catholic tradition has it that St. Patrick drove them all off a cliff in the 5th century. Read more

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