Dublin's St. Patrick's Day Parade 2008 live from the Balcony on Dame St.<br />Subscribe to us right now at - http://bit.ly/subscribetoBalconyTV<br /><br />'Like' us on Facebook - http://Facebook.com/balconytv<br />Follow us on Twitter - http://Twitter.com/balconytv<br /><br />Vote for BalconyTV in the Viral Video Category of the 2008 Webby Awards by going to<br />http://pv.webbyawards.com<br />Register-Film and Video-Viral-BALCONYTV!!!!<br /><br />http://balconytv.com 17/03/2008<br />COMMENTRY BY STEPHEN O' REGAN, TOM MILLETT and HUGO O' REGAN<br />Saint Patrick's Day (Irish: Lá 'le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig), colloquially Paddy's Day or St. Patty's Day, is the feast day which annually celebrates Saint Patrick (373-493), the patron saint of Ireland, on March 17.<br />It is the Irish national holiday and one of the public holidays in the Republic of Ireland (a bank holiday in Northern Ireland); the overseas territory of Montserrat; and the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. In the United States, Australia, and rest of Canada it is widely celebrated, although not an official holiday.<br />It became a feast day in the universal church due to the influence of the Waterford-born Franciscan scholar Luke Wadding, as a member of the commission for the reform of the Breviary [1] in the early part of the 17th century.<br />A common practice among gardeners is to plant at least one potato, no matter how cold the weather, on St. Patrick's Day. This is done in order to ensure a good harvest for the coming year. Some speculate that this may have arisen from the Irish Potato Famine.<br /><br />Tune in tomorrow!!!
