Saturday I made a wonderful Bangers and Mash for dinner with the roomies. I also went one step above and made Traditional Irish Soda Bread just for the fun of it. Surprisingly, it was really delicious.
The St. Paddy's day parade was actually kind of a let down. You would think that it would have been entirely Irish, when in fact it had little to do with St. Patrick's Day. I had no idea what any of the people in the parade were for and everything seemed to be placed randomly in it. There were Italians with cardboard Gondola's, A huge group of Polish people with a giant Polish flag, Brazilian dance fighting, and a group from the Philippine's to name a few. The amount of Irishness of the parade was lacking incredibly. I was definitely not thrilled by it. It makes me want to go to the Boston Parade even more now. And to prove my point... here's a picture. I did enjoy the amount of green that everyone was wearing. At least Cork can do something right for St. Paddy's.
However, Cork at night on St. Paddy's... that's another story. Some friends and I ended up going to one of the pubs called The Bailey. It was incredibly packed. What the parade lacked, the pubs surely made up for. It was great craic though, everyone seemed to be in good spirits. Not sure if it's because they were all really drunk or just happy to have an excuse to party, but either way it was a good night.
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