Yearly Archives: 2014

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[Enda Kenny with parade leaders on Fifth Avenue New York Today]

“Many of those people in the parade today are also members of the gay community and they are marching proudly in the St Patrick’s Day parade,”

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Don’t ask. Don’t tell.

Taoiseach defends decision to march in New York parade (Simon Carswell, Irish Times)

Pic via Simon Carswell

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G’wan the shameless plug.

Rob Ryan writes:

“The staff at Morrison’s Irish Pub in the Sunny South of France’ at France’s largest street party!”

 

Meanwhile…

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Nikkeboentje writes:

Defiant tricolour and little shamrocks (if you look closely at the windows) in Luxembourg today

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Wayne F writes:

“For St Patrick’s Day a defiant Irish tricolour from the Swiss Alps….”

Meanwhile…

 

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James Fitzgerald writes:

“For the day that’s in it, the tricolour on top of Ulriken in Bergen,  Norway. Take that Vikings…”

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[A St Patrick’s Day protest by the LGBT community on Fifth Avenue in New York in 2012, over the LGBT parade ban]

Guinness has withdrawn its sponsorship from the New York St Patrick’s Day parade because of the ban on openly gay and lesbian groups marching.

Boston Beer Company (which produces Samuel Adams Lager) pulled their sponsorship from the parade in Boston for the same reason, while Heineken has also withdrawn it’s support from the New York City parade.

The Guardian reports:

“Guinness has a strong history of supporting diversity and being an advocate for equality for all. We were hopeful that the policy of exclusion would be reversed for this year’s parade,” the brewer said in a written statement issued by a spokesman for its UK parent company, Diageo.

“As this has not come to pass, Guinness has withdrawn its participation. We will continue to work with community leaders to ensure that future parades have an inclusionary policy,” Guinness said.

Previously: Meanwhile On Fifth Avenue


Guinness pulls out of New York’s St Patrick’s Day parade over gay rights (Guardian)

Pic: Stephen O’Farrell