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You have to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. It is a national law to pretend you are Irish for the day. You have no other choice. You do have a few choices for how to spend March 17 this year, however. You could spend the day in a dive bar in Hoboken drinking green beer and listening to people around you who you can’t understand because they are so drunk. Or you could spend it in a dive bar in Dublin, drinking good beer and listening to people around you speaking with an accent that you can’t understand.

Not much of a choice, really. Choose Ireland.

United Airlines actually has a somewhat reasonable deal on St. Paddy’s vacation packages even this late in the game. You can flight to Dublin, stay at a hotel for four nights and enjoy those legendary Irish breakfasts all for around $1,000 depending on where you fly from. In addition, if you use the promotional code – EUFREETOUR – when you book it you’ll get a $100 in free tours. A tour guide could come in handy while you are wondering the streets of Dublin drunk and wondering what those pretty old buildings are all about.

Best of all you won’t have to listen to anyone put on a fake accent. That is always the worst part of St. Paddy’s Day in the States.

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Escape to Ireland for St. Paddy’s Day!

Isn’t it kind of funny that every year around the middle of March when St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated people start coming out of the woodwork claiming their Irish heritage? Ireland and its people have a good name in large parts of the United States and many a traveler has enjoyed warm visions of what it would be like to spend some time in Ireland.

Those visions might include kissing the Blarney Stone, hanging out in a small town pub hoisting a few and trying to understand people who speak English like you have never heard it before, wandering the streets of Dublin, playing golf on one of the wind strewn links courses and picking clover leafs while leprechauns dance around you.

You can make these visions a reality, well maybe not the bit about leprechauns, by taking advantage of some killer deals on flights to Dublin, Ireland from Boston, Chicago and New York. These are seriously discounted from the peak season prices and in case you are wondering what it is like to travel to Ireland in the late winter/early spring I can tell you from firsthand experience that it is awesome. You will literally have the castles to yourself and the tourist sites will have everything but tourists. The weather might be a bit gloomy, but that is the real Ireland and since you claim Irish heritage for St. Patrick’s Day you won’t complain about a few rain drops.

For the best info on where to go and what to see from the perspective of someone living in the country, check out the Ireland travel guide.