St Patricks day 2009 and the parade today was fantastic and the costumes were just incredible. The Ceili Mor wasn’t on this year and i have to admit i missed it loads, next year we should start a campaign to bring it back.

Any way after the parade, i won’t mention the pub, but lets just say there was a very entertaining dance off for the leprechaun shuffle!

With St. Patricks Day being on a Tuesday this year last orders for a Costume to be delivered on time for St. Patricks Day is 3.30pm on Friday 13th. Items ordered after 3.30pm on Friday will be shipped Monday but as there is a bank holiday Express Delivery orders will arrive on Wednesday.

Hope to see you all at the parade. I’ll be in the Above Costume, so keep an eye out.

As part of the St. Patricks Day festivle, they’ve announced a 5K road race on Sunday 15th of March ‘09 at 12.00. It starts and finnishes at the Mansion house and being only 5K even the most unfit of us can safely sign up without fear of straining ourselves.

On the day there are 0ver €6,000 of prizes including some fancy dress prizes.

So get dressed up if your up for putting a few smiles on people’s faces (as you whizz by them on your first peice of exercise in years, only to hear the cruel taunts of some 5year old later as they pass you out while your panting under a tree, avoiding near death, during your midway break), grab some little relations if you can (awesome excuse to take breaks) and make it a fun family day out.

St. Patrick’s day is a world wide celebration of all things Irish. For many that simply means a serious drinking session but what some people forget is exactly how important and how much fun St. Patrick’s day really is in Ireland. So to all our international readers, with thanks to the official St. Patrick’s Day site here just a little taste of the real deal:

A few of our friends can’t seem to get why we get so excited around St. Patrick’s day – If you haven’t been to the Dublin Parade and the outdoor Ceili Mor (which is a massive traditional Irish Dance) down by Earlsfort Terrace – get yourself to Ireland for a truly unique experience.

So yes there will be plenty of the black stuff drunk and much singing of Irish songs from people that don’t quite know the words – but sure we wouldn’t want to have it any other way. Like many other things you only get out of it what you put in and everyone is welcome to part-take in the fun.

In Ireland, the St. Patrick’s festival is no longer a one day event – being the classic over achievers that we are we grew the festival into a full week with various activities on every day. So for anyone of thinking about visiting Ireland there isn’t a better week in the calendar to do so and for those of us just thinking about getting back to our heritage its the one week where we sit back to appreciate how lucky we are to be Irish and murmor a few “cupla focal” – which means a ‘few words’ in the Irish language. While we appreciate the big man for banishing snakes from our green isle.