TOPIC: St Paddy Fest

St Paddy Fest

 

Why are we the only people in the world who can't enjoy St Paddy's Day? Everyone's doing it, doing it, doing it ............... except us. The turn the river green in Chicago, the beer goes green in Oz. Washington, Boston and New York all hold week long parties to celebrate our patron saint. And what do we do? Well we do have the duck dive. But then everyone with a titter of wit quickly scarpers off indoors to leave the streets manned by loutish drunks, out for a row. In this country we have yet to learn how to celebrate peacefully. In North London one pub owner bans all Irishmen from the St Paddy's day celebrations. After years of suffering drunk Irish patriots who finish their night of celebrations expounding on the suffering of their land he came to the conclusion that St Paddy's Day was best kept to the Non Irish.

 

And yet if you think about it, imagine the benefits if we could actually find a way to celebrate St Paddy's Day in an orderly, enjoyable manner! If we could encourage our whole, inclusive community to invest some time and effort into producing a collaborative celebration........... Well. That would truly be something to celebrate! And the rewards would be there for the taking. If people felt secure, if we were able to create something to be proud of ....................then we would be very happy to welcome tourists in to enjoy the day with us. But the day we can appropriately celebrate St Paddy's Day is the day we can properly celebrate the Peace Process.