Today I asked the question minus the drinking why you think everyone loves St. Patrick’s  Day?

My friends gave me reasons varying from lack of snakes, a reason to act retarded and even a question back of people like it without the drinking, and who knows?  To many Irish and Irish descendants around the world March 17^th is a day to honour a Saint to many others it is a day to celebrate everything Irish.  And to many others they see it as just another excuse to drink and feel like a souse the next day at work.  There is something more to St. Patrick’s Day, today across the world there will be parades in Chicago, New York, Montreal, Boston, Toronto, Vancouver, Liverpool, San Francisco, Sydney and many places in between.  People in the thousands and millions will line the streets, the pubs and music halls, they are offspring of the Irish Diaspora, the millions who fled the Crown and the Famine for better lives around the world, whose culture has transcended time and avoided the melting pots of other nations, being separated from their home.

In many years there has been an ever-growing crowd of people with no Irish connections but who may proclaim themselves “Irish for a day” who are coming out to take part on March 17^th.  So why do we love St. Patrick’s Day?  It isn’t the drink or the religion, St. Patrick’s day is one of the few days around the world where people who have nothing in common come together to simply have a good time with likeminded people, who only worry in the world is that you are having a good time.

A day of Religious observance, a day of foolish drinking has literally turned into a worldwide holiday and festival everyone loves to get behind.   I hope you all get out today and enjoy St. Patrick’s Day, if you are Irish or not, we all need a little joy and happiness in the world and the Irish have done that.  We owe a lot to the Irish, they have taken something personal and spread it to us all, if anything St. Patrick’s Day should be a world holiday for everyone around the globe, what else around the world brings so many people together without prejudice.

So enjoy it, wherever you may be today

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh!