As the crowds thronged Main Street, a drunken brawl erupted, prompting a shocked TV newsreader to declare: ‘What you are seeing is a total disregard for the things St Patrick stood for. All this drinking, violence and destruction of property. Are these the things we think of when we think of the Irish?’
At the time, that episode was far more controversial with Irish Americans than people who actually lived in Ireland, who thought it was hilarious. But that was then and this is now – and the modern Irish tend to take themselves far more seriously.
🇨🇮 St. Patricks day parade in Ireland is now full of migrants
This is what Colonisation looks like pic.twitter.com/BPpqCw41Ev
— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) March 17, 2026
