State Senator calls St Patrick’s Day shirts insulting and degrading to Irish Americans

The T shirts have now been withdrawn and replaced with one that more closely reflects Irish culture. The new T shirt features a catholic priest raping a child partially hidden from view by the Popes cloak. The Plastic Paddies will be happy at last.

Did everyone know that Stevenstar "IS IRISH BORN & BRED, LIVES THERE, WAS BORN THERE AND HE HAS AN IRISH PASSPORT? Thought so...must havecheard that a million times like it carries some special dispensation to opine on all things American. Having spent a whole year in Chicago he must have amassed an amazing knowledge and insight into American culture. So he met an obsessed person there who had no clue if Irish culture? So what? I have been in the US many years and can't recall ever meeting anyone like he describes. Come on Stevenstar, drop the self-righteous crap and realize you are not by far the only one here with 'legitimate' Irish credentials, whatever that means.

sorry for the mispelling lousy keyboard.

@StevenstarAllCaps, that's a "story" all right. You are so full of it... Btw: the word is "quite", not "quiet" and we Americans are so glad you're back in Ireland, too.

If you don't stop shouting stevenstar I'll have to see an otologist. I'll find you a good pschologiost on the way.

THIS IS DISTURBING. TO MANY TIMES I SEE AND HEAR THIS TYPE OF CRAP BEING DONE TO US. this has got to stop. too often it seems that people are degrading and defaming our character. I guess its easy to forget who it was that saved your butts during the u.s. civil war, easy to forget the sacrifices we made for this country, who do they think they are fooling with????? do they really want to anger one of the largest population groups in the u.s. to action? a classaction law suite sounds in order. on behalf of all irish and irish-americans living in the u.s.. god, spencers would crap their pants if that were to happen. Hell, lets sue their butts off!!!

LET ME TELL U ALL A STORY.!!!.. IM IRISH BORN & BRED, I LIVE HERE, I WAS BORN HERE AND I HAVE AN IRISH PASSPORT. IN 2010 I WORKED IN CHICAGO FOR A YEAR. FOR A TRAVEL COMPANY...EVERY DAY AT WORK THE AMERICANS TOLD ME I DRESSED VERY 'EUROPEAN'.. IE SMART TROUSERS, WHITE SHIRT SPORTS JACKET, & LOVED MY IRISH ACCENTS :) OH BOY THEY LOVE THE IRISH ... ANOTHER GIRL WHO WAS AMERICAN WORKED IN THE OFFICE ALSO.. SHE CAME TO WORK EACH DAY WITH A HUGE GREEN SHAMROCK ON HER TRACKIE TOP, TRIED TO SPEAK WITH A FALSE IRISH ACCENT AND HAD PICTURES OF IRELAND ON HER DESK, INCLUDING A LEPRAUCHANS AND SOME LUCKY CHARMS.. SHE ALSO TOLD ME SHE HAD A DRINK PROBLEM BECAUSE SHE WAS OF IRISH DECENT !! ....THE WOMEN 'FRIGHTENED ME' HER OBSESSION WITH ALL THINGS IRISH & MOST OF IT WAS THIS FAKE HOLLYWOOD FANTASY IMAGES IN HER HEAD.SHE HAD NEVER EVEN BEEN TO IRELAND.BOY !! WAS I GLAD TO BE BACK IN IRELAND AGAIN... AMERICANS NEED TO STOP THIS OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR BECAUSE IT SCARES US REAL IRISH QUIET ALOT!!! PLEASE REMEMBER THAT !!

If the Irish didn't drink to excess on St Patricks Day then you wouldn't have this stereo-type. As I said earlier the Irish are only too happy to live up to it.

Sully - Anglophile knows who he is.

STEVEN: PLease give your Man Utd Jersey back. Stopt stealing other people's culture.

Ken from Dublin: You remind me of the pig in Animal Farm who defended his bosses when every other animal could see he was blatantly lying. Your claim that there would be "outrage" in Ireland if offensive T-shirts were on sale shows you to be an amadan. It's mostly the Irish who buy them, and it's Irish --and foreign migrant retail workers--who sell them. What fantasy world are you living in?

StevenStar- St Patricks Day was started in America.

WHY ARE AMERICANS SOOO DRAMATIC ... IM IRISH I LIVE IN IRELAND AND I CANT FOR THE LIFE OF ME THINK WHY AMERICANS THINK ITS ACCEPTABLE FOR THEM TO GO AND ROB OUR SPECIAL DAY AND CULTURE .. WHY DONT YOU CELEBRATE YOUR OWN CULTURE AND LEAVE OURS ALONE ... CHEERS !!! & WELL SAID KEN IN DUBLIN !!

Portia your post is flawed and downright insulting. Photographing a singular incident anywhere can be misrepresented or sometimes sed to demonise those photographed. Get some commonsense.

Several years ago a NYC TV station interviewed a group of you ladies who were drinking beer on the street on 17 March. the Female reported said to one of these beer drinkers, "You don't look Irish - are you". Between sips of booze the pretty young lass answered: "No, I'm German but I like to celebrate other hoidays the proper way. So I eat lots od pizza on Columbus Day and I dring lots of beer on St. Patrick's Day. There is a wide perception among Irish and non-Irish that boozing goes hand-in-had with St. Patrick's Day and other Irish events. But a few of us have reached our seventies without ever touching a drop.