According to cadbury

‘almost a quarter of Irish people choose not to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day because they don’t feel it genuinely represents what it means to be Irish?’

How do you as an Irish person feel about paddy’s day, do you feel its still about Irishness? Or is it gone so commercial and only concerned about tourist’s €€€, or has it always been this way?
Do you celebrate it?

https://www.todayfm.com/best-bits/how-become-cadbury-st-patricks-daymaker-1315027

16 comments

  1. I like we have a national day. Should also have an independence day from the tans. Absolutely detest what Patricks Day has become. Endless yanks coming over to be in our parades. Giant piss up day with kids puking on the streets at 1pm. I live in the city and stay away on Patricks Day. Absolute kip.

  2. Calling it Paddy’s day doesn’t sit well with me.

    But to be honest, I feel like it’s equivariant to having a national Disneyesq parade around the country and a tourism marketing gimmick

  3. Il be working from 10am till 3am in temple bar this year, genuinely worried for my health and safety

  6. Well it’s good for the economy with the people visiting and money spent etc, personally for me I just get out of dublin as its a long weekend and escape the madness as well

  8. I don’t really care for Paddy’s day personally but I think it’s absolutely fucking incredible when you think of what it actually is.

    It’s a quasi celebration of Irishness that’s marked in numerous countries around the world and gets the Taoiseach a 1 to 1 meeting with the president of the United States. We send government ministers and representatives to many countries around the world and landmarks around the world are lit in green for the day.

    There is pretty no other country out there in the world that has something like that, especially one as small and somewhat globally insignificant as ours.

    So for that reason alone it’s an important day and one worth marking.

  10. I love St Patrick’s Day. Always have. My parents always made an effort to take me to the parade. We know the best stop ( just beyond the Black Church, right at the start).

    When I was little they would buy green ribbon from Hickeys for my hair and I would wear it all week. Hickeys on Henry Street is gone.

    After that we walk back to my aunts house. She would do a big traditional dinner of bacon, potatoes and cabbage. Then we dance around to a playlist of Irish artists not necessarily trad.. Someone eventually arranges us to do the walls of limerick or the siege of Ennis. We have such a good time. Last year we filled out the weekend with events in Collins Barracks.

    I even love the excitement of getting the bus into town for the parade. There is no other day like it. Everyone is buzzing and in good humour.

    I also love watching some Irish film like the flight of the doves, Darby o’Gill or the quiet man.

    I love it.

  12. I remember being given a few bits of shamrock every year and being so excited and proud to show it off, had no idea what it meant but I loved it. Not too keen on the boozefest it’s become now though but I’m gonna be 41 after march so that’s probably why I’m not into that side of it

  13. I gave up on it a while back, just couldn’t be bothered with it anymore.

    The 2 best years festivities I had were both abroad, 1 weekend in London and another in the US

  14. I liked it as a kid and still sort of like it as an adult, but it’s not a big deal to me now. I feel the same about Easter as well. Halloween and Christmas are the only festivals that really rock my boat nowadays.

  16. It’s good craic – I’d say more so beyond Dublin. In Dublin it’s kinda overwhelming and too crowded. Pick any other city that celebrates in the world and it’s a really cool day

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