Happy St Patrick's Day!

Happy St Patrick's Day to all our Irish readers and supporters.

And congrats to everyone in Wales on the Grand Slam.

There - that's everything covered! ;-)

Nike's St Patrick's Day Black and Tan PR Disaster

They are offensive - sartorially and financially so.

I am outraged by Nike.

They have caused distress and upset in America (and Ireland) by giving a "shoe" (or, splutter... gack.... "sneaker") launched for St Patrick's Day the nickname 'Black and Tan' -- with all the negative connotations the Black and Tans have for Ireland.

Quick history lesson - the Black and Tans were a paramilitary police force for Ireland. They sought to fight back against the guerrilla tactics of the 1920s IRA with terror tactics, committing what many acknowledged to be atrocities against the Irish. Now I know this will rankle with unionists, but it's well known for example that Oswald Mosley spoke out against the Black and Tans (earning him Irish support for his fascists in later years in places like London and Liverpool), whereas the Irish never forgave Winston Churchill who raised the paramilitary force - making them even more keen to be neutral in WW2 (for which kosher revisionists, reds etc. now attack them as traitors or cowards).

But yes I am outraged at Nike. Not at their ignorance, stupidity and frankly hilarious mistake with such a faux pas before St Paddy's; but because they still sell such awful looking tat, made in sweatshops in the east for relative pennies, for such hugely inflated prices to the gullible.

I think I may have post traumatic stress disorder. Where's that number for Claims Direct?

Happy St Patrick's Day 2009

A very Happy St Patrick's Day to all our Irish readers and supporters of Irish descent.

Who would have thought a decade or two back - with Ireland's media bamboozling the people with EU handouts - that Ireland would become a beacon of freedom for those seeking the downfall of the socialist EU?

With Ireland also holding back the tidal wave of anti-family pro-mass murder laws so central to the EU's neo-Bolshevism and Masonic consumerist atheism, we have a lot to thank "little" Ireland with its 3 million (?) souls for.

Moreover how many activists are responsible for organising Ireland's defiance? Probably in truth a few hundred.

As the drunken war criminal Churchill once said, never have so many owed so much to so few.

So "cheers" to all our Irish comrades for everything they have done to save European culture and civilisation from the machinations of those who think they can own, control and bully all of us.

The Irish have shown that it doesn't have to be that way.

Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh

A very Happy St Patrick's Day to all our Irish readers and all FC supporters of Irish descent.

The (end stanza of the) Lorica of Saint Patrick

I arise today
Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,
Through a belief in the Threeness,
Through a confession of the Oneness
Of the Creator of creation

St. Patrick (ca. 377).

As the Irish move towards the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty (Constitution!), let us hope their love of freedom stirs them to vote against the Socialist monolith in Brussels, just as they did with the Nice Treaty.

All our freedoms may well be in their hands.

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh!


Links:
Wikipedia on St Patrick
Ecclesiastical History of St Patrick