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A big fat happy Paddie's Day to all and sundry.

Whether you're from Wexford or Wolverhampton, Limerick or Lytham St Anne's, Dublin or Devon may the road rise to meet you and may you continue to confound God's wrath by lying in the confessional.


Go on, go on, ah sure you know you want to, GO ON!!!

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And I'll see your Jameson's, with a large Bushmills, fer no good feckin' reason whatsoever.

And see how you loike* it.


*I absolutely promise, with hand on heart that the 'o' just slipped out next to the 'i' in 'like' and I was astounded at the way of things.


And then you turn round and there's Sam Beckett, Jimmy Joyce and George Shaw.

It fair makes you wonder. It really does.

I was well into middle age before an Irish buddy told me that George Bernard Shaw was Irish I had read all of them some years earlier.


Arthur Wellesley was Irish too and he changed his name to the Duke of Wellington I had read loads about him before that revelation too.


I wonder why all these talented Irish men are all but denied there heritage?

Brendan Wrote:

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> Pope Steve was one of the better popes you know.


He was the one that stood out as he who correctly decided that the name 'Steven' could only be spelt with a 'v' rather than a 'ph'.

I think he may well have given out an edict. Or somesuch.

If not a Papal Bull.

Anyway without him, we'd not have Morrisey.

Probably.

And for most right thinking people, that would be a bad thing.

Brendan Wrote:

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> You forgot Jesus, Elvis and the Pope Steve.

>

> Anyway I'm off out to do some of that

> cringe-worthy sort of celebrating that my Irish

> brethren would probably call me an idiot* for.


*I think you're referring to the word 'eejit', Brendan. You stupid bastard, you.

The Duke of Wellington apparently said "if a man is born in a stable does that make him a horse" when people tried to suggest he was Irish.


And there was me thinking he was just denying Jesus was a horse...


JFK - Oirish


Ronald Reagan - another auld son o' the sod


Obama - By the sacred tonsils o' rooby murray, born in Knock, so he was.

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