It isn’t too late to escape to Ireland for St. Paddy’s Day

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 ... [Read this entry]

A Dublin Deal that will leave you Dancing a Jig

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 ... [Read this entry]