St Patricks day 2023 launch

Strazdas

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120205057#Comment_120205057

I'm saying that the way the papers publicised the launch of the parade the other day may have been rather misleading - by putting a photo of a drag queen at the launch and talking about the theme being 'diversity'. Diversity could mean literally anything - immigrants, refugees, different religions and cultures and languages, disabled people, older people, any type of minority etc....it wouldn't just be about LGBT stuff.

farmingquestion

Everyone nowadays is too afraid of being called X-phobic to push back on any of this crap.

I don't even know why drag queens are so prevalent in things like this. It's not like they're transgender. Drag queens like this are basically showing off their sexual interests. It's like dressing up as a slutty nurse or dominatrix.

I was already lost as to how Transgender was added to LGB when LGB are sexualities but this takes the biscuit.

There's a big difference between brendan o carroll dressing up as a woman and men dressing up as sexualised women.

Dslatt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120211540#Comment_120211540

Yeah nobody likes being called a whinging bigot when they are in fact a whinging bigot. If you think drag queens are sexy, more power to you. I always thought they were loud and funny.

JP Liz V1

It seems the hotels in Dublin are really sky highing the prices

kneemos

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120299760#Comment_120299760

98% sold out apparently. Last minute prices crazy though.

https://businessplus.ie/news/hotel-patricks-day/

Patrick2010

Wonder if years times drag queens will be viewed like the black and white minstrels from years ago?

SafeSurfer

https://youtu.be/fuXm6BOhogE

Official Irish state St. Patrick’s Day video

Potential-Monke

That's kinda... depressing. Then again, I really don't like Danny Boy so I was against it from the beginning.

Thelonious Monk

I am loving this thread as someone who couldn't care less about St Patrick's day anyway. It's like the organisers of the event are trolling the users of this site specifically. Wonderful.

Run Forest Run

They're trying too hard... it's never a good look tbh.

You end up getting the opposite reaction when you behave like this.

osarusan

Lovely visuals, but the song was a dirge. If the song had picked up pace along the way, and maybe been finished off as a choir, it would have been better and more celebratory, but it stayed so needlessly mournful throughout.

Xander10

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120186407#Comment_120186407

Teetotalers.

It's only a day for pissheads.

francois

Great day out, loads of people having fun nobody gave 2 shītes about the meaningless trope "woke"

apache

So I didn't see the parade. I will catch the virgin media news. I used to always cringe at the pride parade when I'd see highly sexualised men. There's no need for it. Kids do not need to be seeing that. Loads of kids watching.

Strazdas

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370183#Comment_120370183

The LGBT section of the parade today was tiny and a 'blink and you missed it' moment. All of that huffing and puffing about drag queens a few weeks back was a waste of time.

apache

I seen it there on the news. Didn't see anything distasteful. Looks like a good day and people enjoying themselves. Hopefully it dosen't get too messy in town later.

retalivity

I was at the parade, it was a bit sh1te in fairness. The drag queens were in the middle somewhere, about 10 of them and they were past you in 20 seconds. About 20 North American marching bands, 10 floats which were admittedly very impressive, and the odd police/fire brigade/revenue/venezualan group. Saw one group of irish dancers who were just walking around waving, that was it really from an 'Irish' perspective.

eggy81

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120190785#Comment_120190785

I think it kind of a coming out effect where they are being bold about being themselves. I assume it’ll tone down in general terms over years as the world moves on with it.

apache

Was just looking at temple bar earthcam. Jammers!

Annasopra

Tiny far right protest

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/03/17/scuffles-as-gardai-block-small-far-right-group-from-dublin-st-patricks-day-parade/