Rainbow of colours enrich parade

MAMMY wore black knee-high Doc Martens over black tights under a black overcoat with raven dreadlocks twisting down the back and scary black make-up coating her eyes.

Daddy was similarly smothered in dead-of-night shades, inky black tattoos obscuring any flesh-coloured parts and only copious body piercings to distinguish him from the road surface.

The kids, in contrast, bounced around in verdant jumpers and emerald trousers like frogs rescued from a tar barrel. On St Patrick’s Day, it seems, even the O’Osbournes have room for a little green in their lives.