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So Paddy's Day in Ireland is always a wash-out. This year the parades etc are on today, while the big fireworks festival was last night. The official holiday and Church celebrations will still be tomorrow. Miraculously, it's actually not raining today. The paradegoers will be relieved!!!
A typical Paddy's Day over here goes a bit like this. You wear green clothing, with fresh shamrock pinned to your lapel. In the morning you go to Mass. Dinner is around noon-ish, and is traditionally boiled bacon and cabbage, with the omnipresent potatoes (we do not eat corned beef, we don't even have it over here... we do have a meat product that we call corned beef, but it's not the same thing and you really don't wanna know!). After dinner you go out to the local parade which will consist of the local schools and voluntary organisations, a few marching céilí bands, and a heck of a lot of farming equipment. The parade is always led by someone dressed up as St Patrick, often a local celebrity or a schoolboy dragged reluctantly along by his mortified mother! After the parade a lot of people go straight to the pub and stay there until four or five in the morning. There are usually more public order offences on Paddy's night than any other night of the year. In my family the pub and the parades get bypassed to go and watch the GAA All-Ireland Club Championship Finals (one game each in gaelic football and hurling) on the TV. We're a bit GAA obsessed
This year with the parades on today Paddy's Day will probably be quiet tomorrow. BF and I are thinking of going for a nice long drive together and maybe for a bit of a hike. I'm really looking forward to the quiet time together as he's been working an awful lot lately and I haven't seen as much of him as I'd like! I'll definitelly cook him some bacon and cabbage as it's his favourite meal - psssst, the secret is to boil the cabbage in with the bacon for extra flavour, yum!
Do you celebrate Paddy's Day? What do you do? I'd love to hear about it!
A typical Paddy's Day over here goes a bit like this. You wear green clothing, with fresh shamrock pinned to your lapel. In the morning you go to Mass. Dinner is around noon-ish, and is traditionally boiled bacon and cabbage, with the omnipresent potatoes (we do not eat corned beef, we don't even have it over here... we do have a meat product that we call corned beef, but it's not the same thing and you really don't wanna know!). After dinner you go out to the local parade which will consist of the local schools and voluntary organisations, a few marching céilí bands, and a heck of a lot of farming equipment. The parade is always led by someone dressed up as St Patrick, often a local celebrity or a schoolboy dragged reluctantly along by his mortified mother! After the parade a lot of people go straight to the pub and stay there until four or five in the morning. There are usually more public order offences on Paddy's night than any other night of the year. In my family the pub and the parades get bypassed to go and watch the GAA All-Ireland Club Championship Finals (one game each in gaelic football and hurling) on the TV. We're a bit GAA obsessed
This year with the parades on today Paddy's Day will probably be quiet tomorrow. BF and I are thinking of going for a nice long drive together and maybe for a bit of a hike. I'm really looking forward to the quiet time together as he's been working an awful lot lately and I haven't seen as much of him as I'd like! I'll definitelly cook him some bacon and cabbage as it's his favourite meal - psssst, the secret is to boil the cabbage in with the bacon for extra flavour, yum!
Do you celebrate Paddy's Day? What do you do? I'd love to hear about it!
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