{"id":89502886,"date":"2020-03-17T20:40:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T20:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odd.blog\/?p=89502886"},"modified":"2020-03-17T23:04:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T23:04:54","slug":"st-patricks-day-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/odd.blog\/2020\/03\/17\/st-patricks-day-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Patrick’s Day 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

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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<\/a>. She reminded me that my wife took a photo of people queuing to get into Tesco yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The queue to get into Tesco Paul Street, Cork yesterday. Credit: Jacinta O Caoimh.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tonight at 9 I\u2019ll speak to you on @RTE<\/a> and @VirginMedia_One. This is a Patrick\u2019s 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<\/p>— Leo Varadkar (@LeoVaradkar) March 17, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>