27 sites in Ireland to go green for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations

What a great marketing initiative. It will sure look good and remind people of the day and of Ireland.

WounderK; You are so right. In recent years Arabs, Indians and Africans are warmly embrased as the "New Irish" while those of us who were raised there and emigrated to the UJ.S. are perceived to be sentimentl fools, misguided patriots and bloody eejits. That is especially true of the Gaeilgeoiri in our midst - yet the Free Staters want out tourists $$$s.

IrelandNorth, I agree. That would have been sweet thing to do.

Eireannach- "now it's just pandering to the tourist industry". That's nonsense. The last time I was in Dublin for 3/17 (never again) the place was full of IRISH drunks getting sick in the street, IRISH teenagers engaging in sex acts in the alleys, IRISH thugs threatening and cursing at all and sundry. The only place I didn't see IRISH people was in the Parade--it was full of Africans and Pakistanis.

Surely they could've found five more sites to illuminate?

Why not add some blue in there? Wasn't Ireland's original national color blue?

what is the point? Nobody cares about the saint or religion that much. It's just a pathetic waste of electricity. StPatricks day in Ireland used to be 'celebrated' with a bit of shamrock - now it's just pandering to the tourist industry.