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Monday March 17th - St. Patrick's Weekend The Fireworks: Saturday at 8pm, view from a balcony. http://www.stpatricksfestival.ie/cms/events_skyfest.html The Parade: Monday at 12pm, watch on TV. http://www.stpatricksfestival.ie/cms/events_festivalparade.html Monday March 17th: Schools Senior Cup Rugby S.C.T final in Landsdowne road at 3pm. St. Mary's against Terenure. Thrilling local Derby that should settle a few scores. C O M I N G S O O N - W R I T E I T D O W N Good Friday 2003 - Friday April 18th. Traditionally one the great nights for a House Party. We can help. We mainly supply Beckett's Dublin Lager and Darcy's Stout which is brewed in Smithfield, Dublin. The Dublin Brewing Company also brew Maeve's, Wicked Apple organic cider, and Revolution ale. All our most popular beers come in 30 ltr kegs (52 pints) and cost only 115 Euro (1.92 Euro per 500ml). This price includes all cooling and dispensing equipment. P U B S O
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R I C K ' S F A C T S These are the same fact from last years Paddy's BCN. Not much has changed and we had forgotten most of them. So, just consider it some light revision. 1. His real name was probably Maewyn Succat, Patricius when Romanicized. 2. He used the shamrock, which resembles a three-leafed clover, as a metaphor to explain the concept of the Trinity (father, son, holy spirit). Remember, this was before PowerPoint was invented. 3. He died on March 17, AD 461. No prizes for this one. 4. The first St. Patrick's Day in America was celebrated in Boston in 1737. 5. The first St. Patrick's Day parade took place in New York City on March 17, 1762. It was led by Irish soldiers serving in the English military. A S W E G O A R O U N D T H E B A R from http://www.realbeer.com Over Half of Americans Ages 21-34 Think March 17th Deserves Official Holiday Status NEW YORK, March 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Guinness is leading a movement to get the official recognition St. Patrick's Day deserves by launching a campaign to make this day a national holiday. Americans agree that March 17th should be a national holiday. A recent survey conducted by Harris Interactive reveals that 54% of Americans ages 21-34, and 33% of all adult Americans feel St. Patrick's Day deserves national holiday status. In major cities across the country support for making St. Patrick's Day an official holiday is strong. A recent survey conducted by the polling company(TM) reveals that 43% of Atlantans, 46% of Bostonians, 51% of Chicagoans and 52% of Denverites believe St. Patrick's Day should be a national holiday. This unprecedented campaign has already rallied a significant amount of support from celebrities to media personalities to St. Patrick's Day enthusiasts. Popular TV actor Danny Masterson of That '70s Show had this to say, "Well my great-grandfather had to change his last name, coming over here from Ireland, just to get a job. So, I think the country owes us a holiday...besides everybody loves the Irish!" TV personality Jimmy Kimmel of Jimmy Kimmel Live adds, "Holiday-wise we need to wipe the slate clean and start over. Do you know that Groundhog Day is a national holiday? Our nation has devoted an entire day to watching a bucked toothed rat come out of a hole. I also oppose Parent's Day. Did you know that there is a Parent's Day? Seems to me Mother's Day and Father's Day cover that category already. St. Patrick's Day means fun, drinking, eating things that aren't supposed to be green and more drinking. If that isn't worthy of official recognition then I don't know what is. But I do know that it beats the hell out of Flag Day." Guinness wants everyone to join the effort to make St. Patrick's Day a national holiday, and information about this campaign can be found anywhere Guinness bottles, draught or cans are sold. Consumers can get involved by signing a petition to make March 17th a national holiday at their local pub or online. These petitions from all over the country will be amassed and ceremoniously delivered to Washington, D.C. St. Patrick's Day fans can also contact media outlets nationwide to voice their opinion and help spread the word to give this day of Irish celebration the recognition it deserves! In support of this campaign, Guinness will be hosting taxi stands for St. Patrick's Day celebrators in select cities on March 17th. Source: http://www.GUINNESS.com St. Patrick's Day in Russia By Carl Schreck, The Moscow Times MOSCOW: Teetotaling has never been characteristic of Russian and Irish culture, but Moscow's St. Patrick's Day celebrations -- traditionally a time to consume strong drinks from grog to Guinness -- were modest affairs during the Soviet Union. "[During Soviet times] the Irish Embassy held an annual reception for members of the Irish community, representatives of the government and diplomatic corps," said James O'Shea, the Irish Embassy's cultural attache. But since 1992, when Moscow held its first annual St. Patrick's Day Parade, the Russian capital has taken to the Irish national holiday. This year's St. Patrick's Day Parade will be held on Saturday beginning at 1p.m. The parade will start on Kutuzovsky Bridge and proceed along Novy Arbat, ending at the Arbatskaya metro station. Novy Arbat will be closed to traffic during the parade. The parade's organizing committee has developed a friendly relationship with the Moscow government since 1992, and every year city officials watch the procession from the reviewing stand. "Mayor [Yury] Luzhkov is an enthusiastic supporter of the parade, and thanks to his support, the organizers receive full cooperation from the city authorities at all levels," O'Shea said. Danny McLoughlin, the parade's organizer, said he was waiting for confirmation of which Moscow officials will be present on the stand this year. "Right now we're talking with the deputy mayor," he said. He said Ireland's ambassador to Russia, James Sharkey, will watch from the stand, likely with ambassadors from Britain, Canada, Portugal and the United States. One other addition to this year's list of dignitaries will be Irish singer Finnbar Furey, who will give a concert at the conclusion of a weeklong celebration.Furey has a cameo appearance alongside Leonardo Di Caprio and Daniel Day Lewis in Martin Scorcese's "Gangs of New York," a film about New York's Irish gangs in the 1860s. Aside from many of Moscow's Irish pubs that will be offering two-for-one Guinness deals on St. Patrick's Day, local Irish cultural groups, such as the Irish dance school Irdian and the Russian Celtic Society, will be staging events. On Wednesday, Irdian will hold a folk dance evening at the Club na Brestskoi, beginning at 9 p.m. The Russian Celtic Society, an independent public organization founded in 1996 to raise awareness about Celtic culture, will hold concerts Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On Friday and Sunday beginning at 7 p.m., local Irish music bands, including the Moscow group Puck and Piper, will headline a concert at the Central House of Artists. On Saturday, the society will sponsor an "Informal Irish Evening" at Avalon, with music and dancing. The evening will end with a Celtic disco. Dance fans will also be able to check out the Irish dance show "Rhythm of the Dance," which will be performed daily through Saturday at the MDM Theater beginning at 7 p.m. The show, put on by the Dublin-based National Dance Company of Ireland, promises "two hours of dance, music and song, richly costumed, representing a whole new concept in Irish entertainment." According to O'Shea, the show recently completed a successful one-month tour throughout Russia and will travel on to Ukraine after performing this week in Moscow. The Renaissance Moscow Hotel and the Marriott Grand Hotel will each host St. Patrick's Day balls, the proceeds of which will go to charitable causes. The Irish Society is hosting the Emerald Ball at the Renaissance on Saturday, March 15. The ball will feature Irish traditional food, drink, song and dance. Tickets are $125. Those wishing to celebrate at the 10th Official Irish St. Patrick's Day Ball at the Marriott on Friday will have to search out a different venue for downing craic. Tickets for the ball, also set at $125, are sold out. The festivities will conclude Monday, when Furey will give a concert in the Kremlin Palace. The parade is the highlight of the celebrations, and event organizers are hoping for a repeat of last year's weather, a sunny day that helped prompt 8,000 to 10,000 people to line the Novy Arbat. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/03/11/015.html W H O A R E T H E B R E W C R E W? The Brew Crew deliver 5 superb multi-award winning Irish Microbrew keg beers. Print this detailed PDF http://www.brewcrew.ie/BrewCrew.pdf Or read our FAQ at http://www.brewcrew.ie/faq.htm The Brew Crew introduces our clients to the future of party catering. We cater for birthdays, corporate events, barbecues, weddings, housewarmings or any great occasion. 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This
photo is classic, it shows Coleman's Authentic Irish Pub in Syracuse,
N.Y. Note the small door for leprechauns right beside its regular
front door. A former Syracuse resident swears he once saw a patron
who obviously had consumed much too much stout try to crawl through
the door at closing time.