Sunday, March 18, 2007
Paddy's Day in pictures
The St Patrick's Day parade in Dublin...
Over 600,000 attended but I watched the rugby instead
Though maybe I should have gone after all...
Yours truly went out during the evening and sampled some of the atmosphere...
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...
In a great gesture Gerry Adams was allowed to march this year
St Patrick's Day parade, London...
The Archbishop of Canterbury got involved I see
St Patrick's Day parade, New York...
Some guys just get all the luck
In Washington, the Taoiseach gave President Bush some plants he found in his back garden...
"You shouldn't have Bertie - seriously"
Festivities took place in Toronto, Canada...
Choose better coloured shirts next time fellas
In Sydney, Australia...
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...
Luck of the Irish is right...
Being pipped by France for the Six Nations championship put a bit of a dampener on the day...
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...
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.
Over 600,000 attended but I watched the rugby instead
Though maybe I should have gone after all...
Yours truly went out during the evening and sampled some of the atmosphere...
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...
In a great gesture Gerry Adams was allowed to march this year
St Patrick's Day parade, London...
The Archbishop of Canterbury got involved I see
St Patrick's Day parade, New York...
Some guys just get all the luck
In Washington, the Taoiseach gave President Bush some plants he found in his back garden...
"You shouldn't have Bertie - seriously"
Festivities took place in Toronto, Canada...
Choose better coloured shirts next time fellas
In Sydney, Australia...
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...
Luck of the Irish is right...
Being pipped by France for the Six Nations championship put a bit of a dampener on the day...
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...
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.
# posted by United Irelander @ 3:54 PM 
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