Sunday, March 18, 2007

 

Paddy's Day in pictures

The St Patrick's Day parade in Dublin...



Fun day
Over 600,000 attended but I watched the rugby instead



Yeowza

Though maybe I should have gone after all...



Yours truly went out during the evening and sampled some of the atmosphere...


Party time
Is that girl in the middle flipping me off? Irish charm indeed!



St Patrick's Day parade, Co. Cork...




I'm guessing that isn't the Orange Order



St Patrick's Day parade, Newry...


I have noy soynd economic plansh
In a great gesture Gerry Adams was allowed to march this year


St Patrick's Day parade, London...


Go on your grace!
The Archbishop of Canterbury got involved I see



St Patrick's Day parade, New York...


Kiss him he's Irish
Some guys just get all the luck



In Washington, the Taoiseach gave President Bush some plants he found in his back garden...


Great, just like the ones from last year
"You shouldn't have Bertie - seriously"



Festivities took place in Toronto, Canada...


Bet this was cheaper than the places in Dublin
Choose better coloured shirts next time fellas




In Sydney, Australia...



Riverdance lives on
Aussie Rules Irish dancing - they have to kick each other at the end




As well as Tokyo, Japan...



Give this man a Guinness quick




In Rome the Italians joined in the celebrations...


Go get 'em!
Luck of the Irish is right...




Being pipped by France for the Six Nations championship put a bit of a dampener on the day...



Heartbreaking
So near and yet so far



But we had cause to celebrate some more as the Irish cricket team caused a huge upset by knocking out Pakistan...


Well done boys
Pakistan were sent packing



All in all I thought it was a fun St Patrick's Day. Weather wasn't too bad and the celebrations were colourful. Town was really packed with people and my pub crawl took in a lot of places. Coming so close to winning the Six Nations but missing out on points was agonising but hey we'll recover from it, plus we now have a cricket team to cheer on.

Hope you all had an enjoyable St Patrick's Day. As much as I enjoy March 17th though, March 18th is a right old pain - especially in the head and stomach. Ugh.

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