A sudden influx of Irish nationals arrived in Smalltown on Friday to mark St. Patrick’s Day and for once nobody complained about their illegal encampments and called for them to be moved on.
Instead, publicans in both Smalltown and Dullbridge invited them in with open arms and plied them with Stout which was on special offer for the day.
Local man Paddy o’Beery told us “Begorrah. I’ve been living in Smalltown for turty- tree years now and I’ve never seen anyting like it.
It was weird. A sea of emerald green and people prancing around wearing Leprachaun hats everywhere I looked. And all of them demanding to know where the craic is. I told them to try Dullbridge, but they just laughed at me.”
Several pubs reported that they sold out of potato crisps during the course of the evening.