Given how many Joycean scholars focus their academic careers on Ulysses alone you sure come off as incredibly ignorant.

Awesome response is awesome.

It's a national holiday for all people of Ireland not just Catholics. Your ignorance is showing.

Given the plethora of high quality cultural programming and grass roots events across the city it's more than a little tragic that you think the day is tied solely to drinking with tourists in Temple Bar.

You are completely wrong there, sorry. You come across as possessing a particularly ignorant and US-centric viewpoint. The St. Patrick's Day festivities take place over an entire week which includes "Seachtain Na Gaeilge" - a celebration of the Irish language. Tiny villages and towns across the island host their own…

It only offends me when its called St. Patty's day. That and the Irish Car Bomb named beverage just need to be stopped.

Agreed. This website has been in a terminal state of decline for some time. Doug has been the final nail in the coffin.

Yeah that was my first thought, would a suit have killed him?

Punk'd ruined Jason Bateman for me, that man is a douche.

The one posing is some sick bitch. Ugh, her face sickens me. I'm so glad I'm an old.

That made me laugh.

She funds a school that peddles Scientology, I can't respect her.

But then she also funds a school that peddles Scientology ideology ensuring that young people get sucked into cultish belief system at their most vulnerable.

I have to say that her pic made me feel a whole lot better about myself which is pathetic and no doubt why tabloid peddle those pics in the first place. I am part of the problem.

He's such on awful sell out on so many levels. He has gone right down in my estimation ever since his midlife crisis started.

There were several articles about it.

I saw an interview with her on BBC this week and she didn't come across as particularly bright, in fact she came across as quite vacuous. I was surprised. Given that she compared Native Americans to munchkins as mentioned below, well she's gone right down in my estimation.

That does change things, thanks for posting this. He was well renowned for his social commentary so I was particularly disappointed that he was alleged to be racist.