Ok people what can I say about st. paddy’s day! Well for a start its not just a day its an all weekend affair you got the night before boozing in the local because there’s no work for most the following morning, then you got the day itself and then you got the day after which usually starts with the cure followed by a day of lounging about feeling sorry for yourself because (a) You feel like you’ve just done ten rounds with barry mcguigan (b) You urinatd all your previous weeks wages away over the weekend and finally you have a week of baked beans on toast ahead of you until pay day arrives! But hey it was all worth it after all paddy did banish all snakes from Ireland mind you there’s still a rew lurcking around up in dail eireann.

Swiftly moving on what does actually happen on paddy’s day well lets go through it together and don’t forget this is coming from my own personal point of view.

9am Hop up outa the bed, grab a shower, get dressed and spruced up for the day ahead.

10am Have a hearty irish fry up to line the stomach for the days activities, may I recommend coffee with your brekkie not tea and make it a pot not a cup.

11am Mass “try to stay awake once communion is dished out you can duck out the back door the man above understands communion tends to make one thirsty.

12pm PUB’S OPEN YAHOO.

2pm Everyone limps outside the local for a glimpse at the olde parade.

2:30pm Back indoors to get a round in.

5pm The local paddy band starts setting up there gear ahh the session ain’t far away now “up ya boyo”

7pm Nip across to supermacks for a snack box to keep the lining of the stomach intact.

9pm Now the session is in full swing the bands playing away at full volume you have paddy rielly on the bowrawn there’s paddy larkin on the fiddle you have paddy macormick on the accordion ah paddy maginty with the spoons oh and the flannagan brothers paddy junior and paddy senior on the kettle drum and the harmonica and last but not least you have mary o flaerty in the corner with the hoppin leg! No really she detaches her leg and hops it up and down on the ground to the beat ah good olde mary.

12:30am Kicking out time or is it ??? Just keep flashin yer cash all night and when the landlord locks up you’ll still be inside drinkin away by candle light! But there eventually comes a kicking out time for you to its either (a) when yer mates wake you up or (b) when the barman realizes your broke.

3am Walking home “oh god will I ever get there, jesus did someone move my house, god help me im not gonna make it” then finally the front door appears an hour later man its tough living around the corner from yer local.

5am Fall into bed leaving clothing shoes the lot still on! Notice I left an hour gap from when you reached yer house and getting into bed well reason being is you can be certain its gonna take at least an hour to figure out how to get the key in the door to let yourself inn.

So there you have it people typical paddy’s day. Its lucky us irish were blessed with not ordinary livers but SUPER LIVERS or the irish population would be fairly small.

So where ever your gonna be this paddy’s day make sure your surrounded by your mates, music, booze and crack because that’s what its all about, celebrating the man that chased all the snakes out of Ireland strange tho he’s the only one who seen the snakes hmmmm

Anyhow LE FHEILE PADRAIG SONA and POG MO THON ……….

” paddy’s day”

T’was the day of st. paddy’s and all thru the streets
The legs were hoppin ti the olde irish beats,
For the sounds of the bowrawn the fiddle and more

Were echoing out of every pub door.
At the top of there voices you can hear them all sing
The celebrations were without doubt in full swing,
As the night started to draw to an unfortunate close
Young and old crawled home on all fours,

But tiz all to be expected which just leaves me to say
I bid to you all a hoppin paddy’s day ………………..