Sh**e Irish parents say on St. Patrick's Day to their American kids

Not offended here either. Just... guilty as charged, especially on the corned beef issue!

Kerry: I apologize for all the uptight people who have commented. It was a fun article, nothing offensive in it at all.

In the name of God, people grab a bit of sense! The article is obviously intended to be a bit of fun. if you come to this site and read it often enough, there are plenty of things to complain and protest about, but if you are protesting about this you must have too much time on your hands. Kerry, I apologise for all the twits making a fuss over your piece. I appreciate it for what it is - a gentle fun-poking at my expense, and my kids delight!

Mannn.here we go, every year some knucklehead who thinks he/she knows it all says "corned beef and cabbage isn't even eaten by the Irish." You know what? Who gives a frogs fat arse what the Irish eat on 3/17. All I know is Irish AMERICANS eat corned beef and cabbage on Saint Patrick's Day because this poor cut of meat is what our humble, bold, and brave ancestors ate when they came to North America. They were damn happy to get any meat at all too since many were too weak from starvation to even get off the often disease infested boat. So to all Irish AMERICANS and even Canadians, eat your Corned Beef and Cabbage and remember they didn't always throw parades for us, they used to come after our ancestors with pitch forks and burn our Churches down.

Kerry O Shame is full of it she is a typical plastic Irish git with a 24hr. use by date(17th. of march).

Bythebay "Is Kerry O'Shea related to James O'Shea, another writer for Irish Central????". No. Kerry O' Shea's mother was Kitty O'Shea.

That bad word gives me a chance to tell yez one to share on Patrick’s Day. Paddy had been drinking at his local Dublin pub all day and most of the night celebrating St Patrick's Day. Mick, the kindly bartender says, 'I don’t think you should be drinking anymore tonight, Paddy!’ 'OK Mick’ says Paddy, I better be on my way then'. Paddy spins around on his stool, steps off and falls flat on his face. 'Shoite!' he says pulling himself up by the stool and dusting himself off. He takes a step towards the door and falls flat on his face again, bloodying his nose. 'Shoite, Shoite!’ he says under his breath. He looks to the doorway and thinks to himself that if he can just get to the door and some fresh air he'll be fine. He belly crawls to the door and shimmies up to the door frame. He sticks his head outside and takes a deep breath of fresh air, feels much better and takes a step out onto the sidewalk and falls flat, smashing his face on the pavement, more blood. ‘Geeze I'm fecked' he says. He can see his house just a few doors down the street and crawls to the door, hauls himself up the door frame, opens the door and shimmies inside... He takes a look up the stairs and says 'Aw geeze! No feckin' way' but he crawls up the stairs to his bedroom door, hauls himself up by the door handle and says 'I can make it to the bed'. He takes a step into the room and again falls flat on his face, all bloodied now. 'Shoite! Shoite! Aw feckit feckit feckit!' he says as he hauls himself up once more and collapses into bed. The next morning, his wife, Jess, comes into the room carrying a cup of coffee. 'Wake up Paddy’ she says as she opens the curtains. ‘I see you had a good bit to drink last night.' Paddy wipes the dried blood off his face and says 'Geeze I did, Jess. I was feckin' pissed. How did I get in such a mess??' Jess says 'Mick phoned... You left your wheelchair at the pub.'

Another brain numbingly Sh**e article!

Ok, to the writer of this article and everyone associating Guinness to Irishness or Patricks Day is victim of one of the most impressive marketing campaigns lead by the company. Arthur Guinness opposed Irish independence as he was afraid he would be made pay export duty to England (not very patriotic putting your business before national interest?) he was also a staunch protestant(hence having enough wealth to create the largest stout brewery) and also always sided with factory owners and landlords in fighting and labor and land movements for poor catholic workers and farm laborers contributing to the social conditions which mean most Irish Americans ancestors having to emigrate and the families they left behind dying of "poverty" diseases and starvation. So can the writer of this article give me any reason why an anti Irish independence campaigner, protestant, wealthy brewery owners product has anything to do with the patron saint of Irelands catholic holiday and the republic of Irelands national holiday? Oh ya and a brief point St. Patrick was not just the man who brought the word of God to Ireland but the Countries patron saint which in tradition with most European countries the feast day of your patron saint is also your countries national holiday so you commemorate the saint AND your country on the same day, so the 17th here in Ireland will be a bank holiday not just for Catholics to go to mass but also to celebrate our country. So catholism doesn't have 100% claim on the day there will be a celebration of our independence struggle so its like the way ye celebrate all things U.S.A. on the 4th of July, and then in the evening streets lined with drunken people and take away wrappers like you have never seen in every town and city the stretch of Ireland

P.S. Neither of my parents drank, nor do I. I know that will shock some Americans!!

Stars and Stripes is well off the mark! In Ireland, St. Patrick's Day is and always has been a "holy day of obligation" meaning that Catholics are obliged to attend Mass. My favorite memory is wearing a clump of shamrocks on my good coat as I went off to church with my mother and siblings. Never heard of corned beef and cabbage until I came to the U.S.

bythebay: What exactly is demeaning in any of these comments?

Ok, ok, I admit to most the above comments.

It is all in good fun,so relax. And I say it to my own kids.

ARE happy, not ate above. Go ro mo leath-sceal, mea culpa.