St. Patrick’s Day 2020

This year the festival is cancelled because of COVID-19, but it was a busy day nonetheless as Gavan Reilly summarises:

That didn’t stop people all around the country holding their own parades and singing to the neighbours! I’ve added a selection I found on Twitter to the end of this post, but first this. Treasa is back blogging so go look at today’s and yesterday’s posts on her blog at windsandbreezes.org. She reminded me that my wife took a photo of people queuing to get into Tesco yesterday.

The queue to get into Tesco Paul Street, Cork yesterday. Credit: Jacinta O Caoimh.

In other news, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will give a televised address in about twenty minutes on RTE1 (on Radio 1 too) and Virgin Media One.

Tonight at 9 I’ll speak to you on @RTE and @VirginMedia_One. This is a Patrick’s Day like no other. We cannot stop the virus but we can push it back. We will always put your life and your health first. In future let them say: when things were at their worst, we were at our best
— Leo Varadkar (@LeoVaradkar) March 17, 2020

Edit: watch the speech here.

WATCH: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar delivers Ministerial Broadcast to the country about the Covid-19 pandemic | Read more: https://t.co/5DnhnO5zAz https://t.co/irOPKnN3Ci
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) March 17, 2020

St Patrick’s Day Car Parade in #Castletownbere #Beara great community spirit 50 cars but strict guidelines 1) Nobody to leave their cars!!!!2) Nobody to hang out of car windows
3) Please keep safe distance from car in front 4) Everyone welcome!!
Just a bit of fun to mark the day pic.twitter.com/Vs4bTkdACw
— Anne Marie Cronin Photography (@am_cronin) March 17, 2020

No stopping the parade over in Co. Clare ☘️ Happy St. Patrick’s day

Thanks @nikkioh101 for sharing #virtualparade #RTEVirtualParade #StPatricksDay2020 https://t.co/z2ddAuk8Os
— RTÉ (@rte) March 17, 2020

Wait for it! Well done Colm! #RTEVirtualParade #StPatricksDay pic.twitter.com/bVCvAF1tFP
— RTÉ (@rte) March 17, 2020

Great turnout for the most local Parade ( ballyshannon, Co. Donegal)#StPatricksDay #stayhomechallenge #QuarantineLife #RTEVirtualParade pic.twitter.com/cxckoPDIPa
— Donal O F (@donalof) March 17, 2020

“I cancelled 5 gigs so I could do this one” – Irish people will always make the best of a bad situation #StPatricksDay pic.twitter.com/fjED2hA3Ou
— Darren Cleary (@RadioCleary) March 17, 2020

Not everyday you have a #RTÉvirtualparade go past the Áras

Thanks @whitebhoyfor sharing

pic.twitter.com/P6WKXSKfYv
— RTÉ (@rte) March 17, 2020

#RTEVirtualParade Happy #StPatricksDay from Galway. An impromptu 30 minute concert by @frankntenor … and social distancing observed by the neighbours. Thank you @NaughtonElaine pic.twitter.com/V6PUk38BVE
— RTÉ (@rte) March 17, 2020

Grace and poise on show at the Clarinbridge #RTEVirtualParade and 'typical Clarinbridge parade weather' thanks to @emeroloan 🌧☘️. (Soundtrack©️ @Riverdance) pic.twitter.com/GLWGP8mcBI
— RTÉ (@rte) March 17, 2020

With #StPatricksDay parades across the country cancelled, people in Bearna, Co Galway took to their cars for a parade while following social distancing rules | Read more: https://t.co/1FT9stRzSB pic.twitter.com/LddHEFgCNy
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) March 17, 2020

https://twitter.com/sportingtipp/status/1239910623913410565

They may have closed the pubs, they may have closed the schools, but nothing is stopping Big Bird doing wheelies up Rush main street on Paddy's Day pic.twitter.com/2jGFfzTT4d
— Robbie (@Robbie__Farrell) March 17, 2020

The show must go on. Self isolation parade in Dun Laoghaire ☘️🇮🇪😬 pic.twitter.com/abOPiuCIhM
— Bobby Kerr (@bobbykerr) March 17, 2020

Check out the @twisteddoodles #paddysday parade. Well done guys! #RTEVirtualParade https://t.co/dCThopZVpe
— RTÉ (@rte) March 17, 2020

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