The day Ireland celebrates - Let’s change to secure a better future

Tomorrow is St Patrick’s Day. We will celebrate it with everything from a modest, dignified enthusiasm to an excuse for a no-holds-barred knees-up.

Reticence may be, as it so often is on these wearing o’ the green Donnybrooks, a stranger. All around the world people happy to acknowledge Irish heritage will tip their cap at their idea of what being of Ireland is.