37 - St Patricks Day: Crimes & Mayhem

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🗓️ 17 March 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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It's St Patrick's day. Worldwide, buildings are being "greened". Shamrock shakes are being consumed. Guinness is being poured, and we're drowning the shamrock. But, this time of year sees a lot of bad behaviour. Some directly as a result of our celebration of all things Irish and some... a little more premeditated. This week, I'm joined by 4 other fabulous podcasts to tell the story of some St Patrick's day crimes for you. Special thanks this week to: All Crime No Cattle ; Southern Fried True Crime; Gone Cold - Texas True Crime; and Unresolved for your kind contributions! Find us on Facebook or Twitter! With thanks to our supporters on Patreon! If you would like to support the podcast, head on over to Patreon.com Theme Music: Quinn's Song: The Dance Begins Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Sources: Aisling Kiernan, “Judge apologises to Portuguese man stabbed by two brother in Co Longford on St Patrick's Day 2017” in The Irish Mirror https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/three-arrests-after-man-stabbed-at-st-patrick-s-day-celebrations-1.3015308 (22 June 2018) Conor Lally, “ Three arrests adter man stabbed at St Patrick's Day celebrations” in The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/three-arrests-after-man-stabbed-at-st-patrick-s-day-celebrations-1.3015308 (18 March 2017) "Eight students suspended after St. Patrick's Day riots rock London, Ont.” from The National Post https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/london-st-patricks-day-riots (19 March 2012) Jacob Shelton, “Chaotic Crimes Committed on St Patrick's Day” from Rankr.com https://www.ranker.com/list/st-patricks-day-crimes/jacob-shelton (undated, last accessed 12 march 2019) Tom Tuite, “Youths guilty of vicious attack on student on St Patrick's Day given a chance to avoid criminal records” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/youths-guilty-of-vicious-attack-on-student-on-st-patricks-day-given-a-chance-to-avoid-criminal-records-30923979.html (20 January 2015) Kate Hickey, “Police probe savage St Patrick's Day attack boasted about on Facebook” from IrishCentral.com https://www.irishcentral.com/news/police-probe-savage-st-patricks-day-attack-boasted-over-on-facebook-video (20 March 2014) Tom Brady, “Gardai arrest two teenagers in connection with horror street attack” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gardai-arrest-two-teenagers-in-connection-with-horror-street-attack-30109165.html ( 20 March 2014)

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0:00.0	You're listening to to be here. Oh, The Good morning all and happy St. Patrick's Day to you.
0:48.0	Bannachty Nefe la Pore Gurev.
0:51.0	As most of you know I'm sure,. Patrick's Day is our national holiday here in Ireland
0:56.0	our version of the 4th of July
0:58.0	and it commemorates our patron saint
1:01.0	who brought Christianity to the far-flung and desolate island at Europe's most
1:06.5	westerly point which was too wet and cold for even the Romans to invade. His arrival on our shores had a huge impact on the island and its culture,
1:17.6	and today St. Patrick's Day represents all of that. I spent my childhood in the States and it was always nice to
1:25.2	celebrate Patty's Day in school. We'd have green sugar cookies and do arts and
1:30.3	crafts and it always made me feel like Ireland was a really special place.
1:35.0	When we moved back here home, going to the St. Patrick's Day parade was always fun,
1:41.0	and in the last 20 years the day has spilled into a nearly week-long
1:45.4	festival. In my 20s I worked at a national monument and spent my paddy's days
1:51.4	pinning fresh shamrocks breaks to visitors who came to watch the parade or maybe take shelter from the weather outside.
1:58.6	It usually rains. Sometimes there's sleep in snow. You never know what it's going to do.
2:05.0	But of course, alongside that family-friendly festival is the drinking.
2:11.0	Something I'm wholeheartedly behind for the most part, but
2:15.0	binge drinking from noon has its downsides and its problems, and its crimes, of course.
2:22.0	When I was thinking about what I could do, given that today is the day, as it were,
2:27.0	I thought I could easily fill an hour with the various assaults and crimes that happen in our cities and towns here on
2:34.1	Paddy's day and I'm still going to talk a little bit about that. But I also
2:38.8	thought that it might be interesting to see what kind of shenanigans have been
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