St Patrick's Day: It should become a week-long holiday each year

AS we all know, St Patrick’s Day was last week and we were all able to celebrate our Irishness once again. It’s a festival celebrated globally and we, the Irish, should be honoured to have a festival celebrated so universally.

On top of that, we had Ireland celebrating their Six Nations victory and rumour has it an estimated 800 people stood outside a pub in Paris just to see Ireland succeed. It is truly remarkable what we, as a country, can achieve.

Yes, we have the constant reminder on the news of people wrecking our wee country and people who are doing what they shouldn’t be doing, and so on.