Eight thousand alone are expected to participate in Dublin’s St.Patrick’s Day Parade today. It’s anyone’s guess how many will line the streets and fill the pubs today. The main parade begins at noon and will follow a route through the city from Parnell Square to O’Connell Street, Westmoreland Street and Dame Street before heading...
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The locals are chomping at the bit to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day here on Balboa Island! This fella lives only a street away from me and today he was tricked out in proper Irish green, identifying himself as a man of the world and ready to join his friends out and about on the...
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All the fun isn’t limited to Dublin’s Temple Bar you know! There are multitudes of fun places to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and one of them is the town of Dalkey. And its not your typical parade and pints kind of Paddy’s Day. What better way to get out there do something different this...
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St. Patrick’s Day should be a great day for the Irish and an extra special one for lifelong Greenwich resident William Connolly. Connolly, or Billy as he is known locally, was installed as the 2013 Greenwich St. Patrick’s Parade Grand Marshal by the Greenwich Hibernian Association at the organization’s annual dinner dance, which was...
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Ireland had three winners on the track on St Patrick’s Thursday at Cheltenham as Big Shu completed the treble in the Cross-Country Chase. The mood was tempered by concern for the leading Irish amateur jockey JT McNamara, who had been taken to Frenchay hospital in Bristol by air ambulance following a fall in the...
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Ireland’s Cardinal Sean Brady, the only Irish Cardinal at the Conclave in Rome will today renew his invitation to the new Pope to visit the Republic and Northern Ireland. He first extended an invitation to the then Pope last year on behalf of the Irish Bishops’ Conference. This could be seen as a great...
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Pope Francis I has already struck a chord with common everyday Catholics and non Catholics. People who were in the St.Peter’s Square for the announcement of the New Pope yesterday were struck by a sense of his holiness and spirituality. People are already speaking of his humility and simplicity. People were delighted with a...
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Earlier this month well known and very popular Irish priest Fr. Brian Darcy said we needed to pray as never before that the Cardinals in Rome will listen to the prompting of God’s Holy Spirit. This morning he said he felt his and all our prayers were answered. He told Pat Kenny on his...
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Shamrocks have been combined with sour cream in a new crisp flavour being launched for St Patrick’s Day. For Irish people living in Britain, or anyone who just wants to be Irish for 24 hours, there is a novel way to celebrate St Patrick’s Day this weekend – shamrock-flavoured crisps. With the Irish influx...
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