'One Life to Live' has dishonor of first-ever PADDIES Award

Has Irish Central.com not checked out their own advertisement for their merchandise page? It shows three items a soccer/rugby jersey, then Guinness products and then a flask with shot glasses. Seems like they are not above using said stereotypes to make a buck themselves.

I agree with the others defending One Life To Live....I also noticed that you didn't mention that they were collecting car keys from all of the policemen that were drinking...now THAT'S responsible!

I went to the parade in NYC last week. I heard and saw a lot worse on the train coming out of the mouths of college kids heading in for a day of drunken revelry. It sounded and looked like the 1960s during the Civil Rights riots. So we shouldn't be surprised that a tv show reflects what it looks like our society is becoming. OLTL has often shown other heritages, but I'm disappointed that they used a stereotype to show the Irish.

The thing is, if this was mocking anything, it was mocking the crass way St Patrick's day IS treated in the US--from the endless drinking, tacky green, even green beer. It was NOT disrespecting or representing actual Irish citizens (and the NON Irish, drunk character Roxy, was simply being true to her character--and using any excuse to drink). It belittles the cause (a valid one) to suggest this should lead to a boycott, and to suggest that you "have never seen such a despicable display of stereotyping and bigotry", is LUDICROUS. Just recently Family Guy aired an episode where, among other things, when the main characters landed in Ireland, they had much trouble getting off the plane, due to the endless whiskey and beer bottles litering the place. I don't see a boycott planned for Fox?

the loss of Irish political power as they disappeared into the sterile suburbs is the main reason tripe such as this gets aired with little or no objection.People who control the media have little or no regard for Ireland and know they can defame us with no consequences.

What a ridiculous post--and now ABC is to be boycotted because of it? One Life to Live has a reputation for being one of the few soaps to even touch on different heritager--they have had some major Irish stories (many penned by the writers of that most Irish of soaps, Ryan's Hope). This has a lot to do with taking things out of context as well--a soap opera is not something you can watch for two days and feel like you know what's being done. Roxy, the woman in the pictures, is a charicatured, comic relief character who always gets things so wrng they become bad taste. You may not find it funny, but she has behaved te same at Hanukah, Christmas, etc--and she's also always drunkand looking for an excuse to drink. No one watching the show regularly ould thinkshe was meant to be Irish or an example of how the Irish behave. As for the rest? Frankly it felt the most like the St Patrick's I've spent both in Montreal, and Dublin than anything I saw on ANY other show (how many other shows een awledged the day??) This is called cutting off your nose to spite your face. For shame for jumping to such ridiculous, and thin skinned conclusions. Ridiculous.

I have to defend One Life to Live. This show has always made it a point to be inclusionary to all races creeds and colors. That is the bedrock on which the show is based. Roxy is a character that is very unique and basically she was celebrating that way because she is tacky. A loyal viewer would have gotten the humor. Fact is that show also had moments a lot deeper and more poignant. John McBain was in a scene discussing the fact that he's going to be a father. Funny how the scene that honored one of the best soaps, Ryan's Hope, a soap based on an IRISH AMERICAN family, didn't get mentioned. You start singing Danny Boy in a bar on soaps and I get teary because it was the last image of that show. Plus, the actress playing Roxy was also on Ryan's Hope. Probably didn't get that part considering you're judgment from on episode.

Wonderful idea. Lifetime achievement awards should be given to Martin Scorsese (Gangs of New York and The Departed), Clarence Page (who once used St. Patrick's Day as an opportuntity to blame the Irish for slavery and racism in America), and Troy Duffy (for the Boondock Saints).

figtirish, Maybe next year they'll have the naked leprechauns step dancing!!!LOL. I don't watch daytime dramas (not since Dark Shadows and the Edge of Night went off) so I didn't get offended and it sounds a lot like the local bars filled with 19 year old college students of various or unknown ethnic background using one more excuse to party to excess.

It's the type of sketch that makes Americans look ignorant!

Stereotypes are a nasty thing, and I'm definitely not a fan of Irish stereotypes myself. BUT, nowhere in this piece does it say that these people were even claiming to be Irish. And it's not like this kinda thing never happens anywhere in the world on St. Patrick's Day... No one ever dresses silly, drinks green beer or Irish Whiskey and uses this holiday as an excuse to be an ass. http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/St.-Patrick-s-Day-Parades or http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/dublin-pub-an-early-sea-of-green-noisy-beer-and-irish-whiskey-drinkers--604053.html or http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/mar/17/happy-st-patricks-day-holly-madison-kicks-festivit/ I would think there were some actual stereotypes of people of Irish descent that would have made for a better example of horrible entertainment stereotypes. This soap opera just shows us that there are jerks out there in the world who drink, NOT that there are Irish stereotypes. Just one man's opinion.

Some attention is better than none at all at all. Pour it and lay some shite on others inreturn. Then we can some fun. Gerry maidens carrying those awesome steins - how can such people drink such a volume. That sickly sweet Manoshevits is pure poison and ... ital ............................................

To hell with them...the whole lot! Damnu órt!

unbeleivable -- even for a soap opera --all that is missing is naked leprechauns