Let’s treasure our true Irish heritage

PADDY’S DAY is a great time to meet up with the friends and have a good bit of fun.

It’s also a great excuse for kids to go out and about and ooh and ahhh at the bright colours passing through the streets.

I was invited down to a little village in West Cork called Kealkill, and I realised what the day was really all about. Young children got the opportunity to do jigs up the street while the older people got to show off their new tractors.

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