Finney 5: St. Patrick's Day facts

For this first time in history, New York City's famed St. Patrick's Day parade will welcome an LGBT organization into its ranks. But equality groups and prominent political allies, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, remain unsatisfied with the parade's

All pubs used to be closed on St. Patrick's Day. While there may be a movement at the moment to curb the drinking that goes on today. The sale of alcohol used to be banned completely until the 1960s with pubs forced to until 

Happy St. Patrick's Day! While the occasion honors the death of Saint Patrick, the foremost patron saint of the nation of Ireland, it has become better known as a day of boundless revelry, excessive drinking, and (yes) wearing 

Green clothing and a touch of blarney are on tap Tuesday as President Obama celebrates St. Patrick's Day. In morning, the president and Vice President Biden meets with Irish Prime Minister — also known as the Taoiseach — Enda Kenny. The schedule says 

"Yes, dentists are very busy the day after we celebrate St. Patrick." He references patients who "can become clumsy and fall down, doing a face plant in the sidewalk," and others who become so drunk that it "results in them biting someone they have