For those of you who are content to remain a region of Britain.........

[BennyCake]

I don't think that is fair. I would say they feel that they have been forcibly "removed" due to the hijacking of St. Patrick's Day by all sorts of nationalist/republican Paddywhackery and vomiting into tricolours over the years. It is fair to say though that most towns are now attempting to make the day cross-community.

I meant St Patrick's day in the religious sense. Not the piss-up.

[Evil Genius]

It gives me the shits when Irish people dress up like feckin' leprechauns on St Patrick's day. They need a feckin' slap. Talk about making a laughing stock of your people! So maybe the less coverage  of such things isn't a bad thing.

I don't partake in St Patrick's Day, simply because I don't believe the St Patrick story.

Having said that, I don't understand why Protestants, who call themselves Christians, remove themselves from anything to do with St Patrick. After all, he (supposedly) brought Christianity to Ireland. That's Catholicism and Protestantism.

I don't think that is fair. I would say they feel that they have been forcibly "removed" due to the hijacking of St. Patrick's Day by all sorts of nationalist/republican Paddywhackery and vomiting into tricolours over the years. It is fair to say though that most towns are now attempting to make the day cross-community.

You're absolutely spot on, TB [bold].

As for Benny Cake's comment, how can he say that Protestants* "remove themselves from anything to do with St. Patrick", when eg the centre of the Anglican Church in Ireland is, ahem, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh; the main C of I Cathedral in Dublin is St. Patricks and I would guess there are dozens of Anglican Churches the length and breadth of Ireland dedicated to the Saint.

Oh, and there's this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7298226.stm

Or BC might listen to this (noting the forum):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMCAV22Y_GA

* - Btw, Protestants don't merely "call themselves" Christians, they are  Christians. 

[Rossfan]

* - Btw, Protestants don't merely "call themselves" Christians, they are  Christians. 

The oul "Love your neighbour " command  - the greatest commandment according to the Man Himself -  doesnt seem to have been very strongly upheld among a lot of 6 Co Prods over the last few hundred years.

[Myles Na G.]

* - Btw, Protestants don't merely "call themselves" Christians, they are  Christians. 

The oul "Love your neighbour " command  - the greatest commandment according to the Man Himself -  doesnt seem to have been very strongly upheld among a lot of 6 Co Prods over the last few hundred years.

Whereas the Catholics, particularly the clergy, were role models for Christians the world over. 

[bennydorano]

Was NW European archipelago not the preferred (yet detached from reality) shinner moniker.

St patricks day gives me the scour, awful day.

[MW]

Having said that, I don't understand why Protestants, who call themselves Christians, remove themselves from anything to do with St Patrick. After all, he (supposedly) brought Christianity to Ireland. That's Catholicism and Protestantism.

Do you really think Protestants remove themselves from "anything to do with St Patrick"? And that they do so for religious/theological reasons?