Luck o’ the Irish
Tue, 2014-03-18 05:00
News Staff
Irish gather to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with traditional meal.
By DAVID MORRIS
In traditional Irish fashion, members of Holy family Catholic Church gathered at the Knights of Columbus hall on FM 2657 to celebrate St. Patrick ’s Day with a family meal, Irish jokes and festive music. “In Ireland we celebrate with a morning mass, then everyone would gather at their local (pub) for a lunch with several different types of meat feasting for hours as a family before leaving for dinner that normally consisted of soup and sandwiches,” said Roger Odie O’Dwyer. “There it is simpler than here in America where we celebrate by dying the rivers green.”
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