Originally Posted by Horace Horse

I've been boycotting St Patrick's Day in Dublin for years. The parade is an ugly debacle. It has nothing to do Ireland and its history, it's full of Indians, Africans, Poles etc. Which would be fine, if those people were attempting to engage with Irish traditions, but they're not, their promoting their own countries.

I'd be the first to congratulate a group of Pakistani ceili dancers, or a sean-nos singer from Burundi, but I have yet to see them in the Dublin parade.
It's mad.