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Fraser Myers
Deputy editor
17 March
For most of us normal folk, St Patrick’s Day is an excuse to sink a few rounds of Guinness during the working week. But, according to Irish president Catherine Connolly, we’ve got St Paddy all wrong. In an address today, she said the man who drove the snakes from the Emerald Isle ought to be viewed as a symbol of today’s ‘vibrant and inclusive’ Ireland, of the ‘resilience and courage of migrants’, and our ‘responsibilities’ as ‘global citizens’. Really? As Brendan O’Neill argues today on spiked, this is globo-slop propaganda. There is no link whatsoever between the man who liberated Ireland from paganism and an illegal migrant housed in a rural hotel. Appropriating Ireland’s patron saint to the end of weakening Irish sovereignty is bonkers. Connolly should calm down and enjoy the craic. Read Brendan’s piece here.
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