It's almost bar time on St. Patrick's Day. While people who don't have to work will be lining up at O'Byrnes at 10am, for the rest of us the festivities are a few hours away.
It will hopefully be the first normal St. Patrick's Day since 2019. We all know what happened in 2020. In 2021 was obviously more of the same, and while 2022 came close (thanks Truckers!) people were still in general scared of their own shadows.
It's also Friday St. Patrick's Day which should be fun. And with next year's falling on a Saturday it should...wait, what?
What?
That's right, 2024 is a leap year and therefore the days which normally advance by one day per year (7*52=364) advances by two. Which means March 17th 2024 will fall on a Sunday and we will be deprived of the sweetness which is a Saturday St. Patrick's.
We have to wait until 2029 until we finally get to party on a Saturday: start at 10am at O'Byrnes and then finish at 2am at...well, also O'Byrnes. The same O'Byrnes that it will be literally impossible to get into anytime after 4pm today.
Bonus coverage: Isn't it funny that the Irish nationalists who were so horrified that their fellow Irishmen wanted to remain in Britain to the extent they turned murderous now just shrug when Africa conquers their isle in nothing flat?
