Education & Reference St Patrick's Day

[Plugger35]

It's St Patrick's Day today.

The day when everyone pretends to be Irish whether they are Irish or not, it's just an excuse to get drunk.

I prefer Kilkenny to Guinness and I went on a Paddywagon tour to end all tours back in 2001 so I'm Irish.

The ironic thing was the St Paddy's Day parade in Dublin was cancelled in 2001 due to foot and mouth.

True story.

We still wrecked the joint.

Post up your favourite St Paddy Day stories here.

(Not you Silent Alarm, I don't want you topping my travel stories)

 

[Dixie Normous]

I whack my bag listening to the Corrs and that hot chick from the Cranberries

 

[WCErevival]

I once owned a green shirt

 

[Gough]

Certainly solved the Irish snake problem.

 

[Plugger35]

The Irish Club in Subi was our favourite drinking hole when we were underage as the cops wouldn't go there.

They had happy hour on Friday arvos with half price jugs and we would rock up there after school.

The barmen would ask if we were 18 and we would tell them we were and they would laugh at us and just tell us to keep our heads down.

We drank a lot of cheap jugs watching hurling and gaelic football which was boring as hell bur it was a good craic.

 

[Plugger35]

Just to back up my Irish credentials.


Jiimeoin is my favourite comedian.




U2 is my favourite band.

 

[atlas1]

Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly

 

[perthblue]

i don't care for the Irish

 

[Brunswick Trap King]

i don't care for the Irish

They're annoying af.

 

[Plugger35]

 

[Spirit Level]

I eat potatoes ironically

 

[GreyCrow]

Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly

Dont talk about plugger like that

 

[Plugger35]

Da Trills

 

[Procrastinator35]

They're annoying af.

To be sure.

Enya is O.K though.



#getoutyabanjoes

 

[Scotland]

I whack my bag listening to the Corrs and that hot chick from the Cranberries

Too soon.

 

[The Passenger]

The party is in full swing in Temple Bar

https://worldcams.tv/sights/dublin-temple-bar

To be honest Dublin is a ****ing nightmare on Paddy's Day.

The back alleyway of any Irish pub (that isn't actually in Ireland) in the Western Hemisphere is where the true spirit of Paddy's day is to be found.

 

[Procrastinator35]

What's up with green beer, Shamrocks & Leprechauns anyhow?.....Bad mushrooms is all I can come up with.....Perhaps a smite too much bile in the diet.

The Irish do provide their share of poets, literary giants & playwrights though....It must be said.

 

[kickazz]

Always make an effort to have some drinks on at Patrick's Day.

Used to have some epic ones in the nineties at the Dan O'Connell in Carlton. I think eight points of fines and you got a free t shirt, pretty good deal. U2 cover band pre bono-is-a-dickhead era.

 

[EagleMan87]

 

[Plugger35]

The party is in full swing in Temple Bar

https://worldcams.tv/sights/dublin-temple-bar

To be honest Dublin is a ******* nightmare on Paddy's Day.

The back alleyway of any Irish pub (that isn't actually in Ireland) in the Western Hemisphere is where the true spirit of Paddy's day is to be found.

On St Paddy's Day in Dublin the year we were there the queues to get into the pubs in Temple Bar were crazy so we ended up going to a bar near our hostel.

I can't remember the name of this place but it had 3 storeys, the top storey was a normal bar where we were drinking, the middle storey was a restaurant and the bottom storey where the toilets were was a goth style club where everyone wore black, had makeup on and listened to shit like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson. Towards the end of the night we decided to go into the goth club for a laugh, we were the only people in there not wearing black and one of my mates was wearing a bright pink and yellow Billabong surf jacket so all the goths in there were staring daggers at us, we quickly finished our drinks and got out of there before we got stabbed. Good times.

 

[Gough]

The pub I worked at in London was an Irish pub in that it was mainly Pads (and me) working there, not Irish as in bullshit shamrocks and bar staff that can't pour a Guiness. We did a Paddy's Night with £1 Guiness and £1.50 large Jamis, we were 5 deep at the bar all night, we did 15 kegs of Guiness and nearly 10 litres of Jamis.

 

[The Passenger]

On St Paddy's Day in Dublin the year we were there the queues to get into the pubs in Temple Bar were crazy so we ended up going to a bar near our hostel.

As a general rule Temple Bar area was a piece of shit to go out in. The Foggy Dew was a great pub and I almost always stopped in for a pint at the Ha'penny Bridge Inn. Nothing else was really worth it in Temple bar. But some great pubs just on the outer Temple Bar region - Brazen Head, Dame Tavern, Long Hall, Hairy Lemon, McDaids, Kehoes, Whelans, Flannerys.... Genuine nostalgia thinking about all those pubs.

I had taken MDMA a few times before, but the first time I ever got proper twisted on it was at Kehoes. That night led to about six and a half years of self discovery and cosmonauting through the earlthy plane we take for granted.

 

[the_interloper]

This goes off when they play it in Dublin.

 

[Gough]

As a general rule Temple Bar area was a piece of shit to go out in. The Foggy Dew was a great pub and I almost always stopped in for a pint at the Ha'penny Bridge Inn. Nothing else was really worth it in Temple bar. But some great pubs just on the outer Temple Bar region - Brazen Head, Dame Tavern, Long Hall, Hairy Lemon, McDaids, Kehoes, Whelans, Flannerys.... Genuine nostalgia thinking about all those pubs.

I had taken MDMA a few times before, but the first time I ever got proper twisted on it was at Kehoes. That night led to about six and a half years of self discovery and cosmonauting through the earlthy plane we take for granted.

It will be a wild night tonight, Grand Slam in England on Paddy's Day.

 

[Plugger35]

It will be a wild night tonight, Grand Slam in England on Paddy's Day.

I was surprised how little interest there was in rugby union in Ireland when I was there, like England most people there are more interested in football.

I mentioned to a bald barman there that he looked like Keith Wood who was the Irish rugby captain at the time but he stared at me blankly like he had no idea who I was talking about.

Ireland are currently ranked 2nd behind the All Blacks, if they won the World Cup next year it would boost the popularity of the sport there like England's 2003 World Cup win boosted rugby's popularity in England. Most non rugby supporters don't take much interest in the Six Nations so even Ireland winning a Grand Slam probably wouldn't make too much difference.