There are not enough Utahns of Irish origin to make a big splash in Salt Lake City on St Patrick’s day. But pretty near all Utahns of Irish origin turn out for the St Patrick’s Day Parade. The event, sponsored by the Hibernian Society of Utah, Read more
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St Patrick’s Day cancelled in Ireland
Monday, March 15th, 2021
With Ireland’s government maintaining the highest “Level 5” Covid-19 restriction, St Patrick’s Day celebrations have been cancelled throughout the country. There will be no parades in Ireland on Mar. 17 for the second year in a row. The government has warned that people who try to organise parties to celebrate the day will face fines Read more
Dublin cancels St. Patrick’s parade after advice from health officials
Thursday, March 12th, 2020Dublin’s St. Patrick’s Day parade has been cancelled due to fears over the spread of coronavirus. Authorities had initially insisted that the festivities — which mark St. Patrick bringing Christianity to Ireland in 432 — would go ahead, but bowed to pressure from doctors March 9 and announced the cancellation. Read more
Most people get St Patrick’s Day wrong
Monday, March 19th, 2018Most people get St Patrick’s Day wrong. They use it as an excuse to engage in less than virtuous behaviour while ignoring key facts about Saint Patrick and his life. Here are some quick facts about Saint Patrick that get missed in the celebration of this day: Continue reading
Bishop gets hate mail after allowing Catholics to eat meat on St Patrick’s day
Monday, May 22nd, 2017Pittsburgh Bishop Zubik received hate mail for allowing Catholics to eat meat on St. Patrick’s Day “You can’t believe the hate mail I got over that. ‘You’re sending us to hell. Who do you think you are to be able to tell us we can eat meat.’” “I mean, it’s over something as simple as Read more
St Patrick’s Day – Kick off with Mass at the Cathedral and then…
Thursday, March 16th, 2017Kicking off early with 11am mass (St Patrick is our patron Saint after all), Auckland’s Irish Society will host a full-day of shenanigans in Morningside’s Fowlds Park with music, dancing and home-made fare. See stpatrick.co.nz While there will be many pints of the black stuff consumed in New Zealand’s numerous Irish bars on March 17,stuff.co.nz have Read more
Hail, glorious St Patrick
Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
For Catholics, Episcopalians and some Lutherans, March 17 is the Feast Day of St. Patrick. For the rest of us, it’s St. Patrick’s Day — a midweek excuse to party until we’re green in the face. But who was Patrick? Did he really drive the snakes out of Ireland or use the shamrock to explain Read more
Auckland one of 19 surprising places to celebrate St Patrick’s Day
Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
An Irish American website has listed Auckland as one of the 19 most surprising places around the world to celebrate St Patrick’s Day. “Aukland(sic) holds the distinction of holding the first St Patrick’s Day party, since midnight on March 17 reaches New Zealand’s largest city before anywhere else.” “It is also the farthest celebration away from Read more
St Patrick: A prophet for global justice
Tuesday, March 18th, 2014
St Patrick is one of a handful of Christian saints, along with Mary, Valentine and Francis, that is celebrated in popular culture. His feast day is commemorated with supermarket meat sales, green rivers, green beer, and (my favourite) parades. But who was the real St Patrick? Most people know that the missionary Patrick (Patricius or Pádraig) Read more
Half-million pack Dublin for St. Patrick’s Day parade
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012An estimated half-million people crowded Saturday into central Dublin to view the St. Patrick’s Day parade, a focal point for Irish celebrations worldwide and the start of the tourist season in debt-battered Ireland.
Bands from Britain, the United States and Russia joined thousands of Irish volunteers on Saturday’s two-hour procession down Dublin’s major boulevard, O’Connell Street, across the River Liffey, past Trinity College and concluding outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
In his St. Patrick’s Day message, Catholic Cardinal Sean Brady offered prayers to the estimated 50,000 citizens who have emigrated in the past year to escape Ireland’s weak economy.
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