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Sober St Patrick’s Day returns to New York and spreads to Belfast

Second annual Sober St. Patrick's Day celebrations to be held in NYC and Belfast

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Published Saturday, February 23, 2013, 7:10 AM

Updated Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 3:25 PM

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Sober St. Patrick's Day makes it return in 2013

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Sponsors for Sober St. Patrick’s Day include: PepsiCo, the O’Sullivan Children Foundation, Caron Treatment Centers, Seabrook House, William C. Dowling Jr. Foundation, Tourism Ireland–The Gathering, Betty Ford Center, Hazelden, Northern Ireland Bureau, PRMA, NACoA, Father Martin’s Ashley, Freedom Institute, Inter-Care, Faces & Voices of Recovery, Creative Care Malibu, ATPA, Realization Center, Café Regular, New York Center for Living, NCADD, Bridge Back to Life, Inc. and individual donors Ruth Riddick, Sean Driscoll and Sis Wenger.

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Seanmor | Feb 24, 2013, 03:06 PM EST

Having been a teetotaler all my life, I enthusiastically support a Sober St. Patrick's Day in NYC and and in all U.S. cities and towns. Also, as a former marine and a current Legionnaire and lont time Gaeilgeoir, I would like it very much if the Parade Committee gave due recognition to all HNORABLY discaharged veterans, and showed special appreciation for those who still speak the language used by Patrick when he preached the Christian faith to muintir na hÉireann.

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merefalow | Feb 24, 2013, 11:20 AM EST

yes,no need for stupid drunken mayhem to give irish a bad name.alcohol binge drinking,fighting,public vomiting,lack of respect to themselves,ploice,etc etc,there is no difference in whatever country or nationality it occurrs in,its not just the irish who behave like this,its endemic in the westen world to the shame of our young.Nothing wrong with moderate consumption but there is a culture encouraged by the booze manufacturers and collusion of governments in not preventing it.

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aloistmartin | Feb 23, 2013, 08:59 PM EST

No Derry, No Pope, No Beer ... No Beer ? ... Support the New I.R.A. !

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