Best place to celebrate St Patrick's Day

Published on Tuesday 11 March 2008 18:55

1 SCOTLAND’S FIRST OFFICIAL ST PATRICK’S DAY Glasgow, 0800 039 7000 www.discoverireland.com/glasgow

Join the sights, sounds and tastes of Ireland at the first “discover your very own Ireland” festival at Merchant Square on Saturday , 10am-4:30pm. Tourism Ireland will recreate a traditional Irish village, with thatched cottages, a village green and a bustling market atmosphere. It is the first St Patrick’s festivity of its kind in Scotland with traditional music, tasty Irish chocolates and storytelling.

2 HEAD TO IRELAND’S CAPITAL CITY – DUBLIN

www.stpatricksfestival.ie

Enjoy Ireland’s biggest St Paddy’s party with 4,000 performers and one million people celebrating. The streets of Dublin come to life from 13-17 March with a variety of events including the famous street parade.

3 ST PATRICK’S DAY PARADE, NEW YORK

www.nyctourist.com/info_stpats.htm

Whether you are Irish or just look good in green, why not celebrate St Patrick’s Day in New York at its traditional parade? The annual procession marches up past Fifth Avenue past St Patrick’s Cathedral at 50th Street all the way up past the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

4 ST PATRICK’S FESTIVAL COATBRIDGE 2008 www.stpatricksdayfestivalcoatbridge.org

This annual festival is a week-long programme of cultural events including music, dance and theatre. This year, the festival runs until 15 March as Sunday is the start of Holy Week. The climax to the week is the Family Street Festival on Main Street, Coatbridge at noon on Saturday as thousands of people flock to the town centre for a day of celebrations with live bands, Irish dancers, contemporary dance and children’s entertainment. The town will be full of flags, banners, music and sounds of Ireland.

5 BIDDY MULLIGAN’S

Edinburgh

www.biddymulligans.co.uk

Edinburgh’s oldest Irish-themed bar in the Grassmarket is offering five days of St Patrick celebrations starting from tomorrow. With DJs and live music every night from popular Irish bands Absent Friends and Beau Nasties, drinkers can have a go singing their favourite Irish tunes “bandeoke”-style with a live band on Thursday evening. Good craic is guaranteed, with various food and drink promotions running over the five days.