Eat your greens - festival St. Patrick’s Day sausage sell like hot cakes – PHOTO

Proudly showing off the Mallon green sausages for St Patrick's Day are -                      
from left - Robin Hunniford, Paul Martin and David Kelly

When staff at the Charlie Mallon’s butchers in Portadown decided to produce St Patrick’s Day themed sausages, they never thought the recipe would prove to be so popular.

“It was a bit of a gimmick,” butcher Robin Hunniford told the Portadown Times.

Shoppers snapped up several pounds of the emerald bangers when they added some green food coloring to their home made sausages. “The feed-back from the customers is that they really enjoyed them.

“They sold like hot dogs!” he added.
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Teaching Aussies to Irish dance at Sydney Central Station again - like being in Star Trek - VIDEO

Tourism Ireland set up “Virtureel” at Central Station, in Sydney, the site of last year's hugely successful “Riverdance” flash mob. The public welcomed the novelty warmly.

One man said he felt like he was in “Star Trek” and wanted to be “beamed over to Ireland”.

Check out the video and watch to the end to see the public’s shock when the real life dancers join in with their “Riverdance” moment.

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Guinness release new British ad for St. Patrick’s Day – VIDEO

Still from the new Guinness ad

Guinness, the purveyors of the world’s most famous Irish stout, have released a comical new ad in time for St. Patrick’s Day.

The ad shows British farmer Gareth Longress and his specialized sheepdog heard a group of seven revelers around a field, ensuring they all get safely to a make-shift pub in a field serving pints of the black stuff.

At first distracted by a TV, a disco dance floor and an Indian, the black and white dog does not stop until all seven men are inside the bar drinking Guinness.

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The leaning Tower of Pisa among monuments to go green for St. Patrick’s Day

The leaning Tower of Pisa turns green

The Tower of Pisa, in Italy, is just one of the tourist attraction around the world that will go green for a “global greening” to mark St. Patrick’s Day, this Saturday, 17th March.

Last month the Ministry for Finance announced that Niagara Falls, the London Eye, Burj al Arab in Dubai, and Table Mountain in South Africa would be turning green for St. Patrick’s Day. Since then San Francisco's Coit Tower and City Hall, Selfridges department store in London, the Cibeles fountain in Madrid, an entire town on the Costa Blanca in Spain, Moraira, Vienna's Burgtheater, and the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw have come on board. Brussels Town Hall, the Glasgow Eye and the Clyde Auditorium - affectionately known as "the Armadillo" in Glasgow - will also turn green.

“Our job is to build on this fantastic occasion by encouraging them to visit Ireland," said Tourism Minister Leo Varadkar. “We want to give them the green light to visit - literally.

"Traditionally, St Patrick's Day has signaled the start of the tourism season in Ireland and this initiative will significantly raise Ireland's profile."

Chief executive of Tourism Ireland Niall Gibbons said the displays will bring a smile to the faces of people around the globe.

Shamrock flavored chips – Perfect for your St. Patrick’s Day celebrations

Keoghs' Shamrock and Sour Cream chips

Who knew!? The genius Keogh’s family, who farm potatoes in north county Dublin has launched the first shamrock flavored chip to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.

You can buy these Irish delights directly from the Keogh family via their Facebook page.

According to the Keoghs they’re the only farm to produce fresh potatoes and fresh chips side by side.

On their Facebook page they announced “Just when you thought our crisps couldn’t be more Irish…check out our new Shamrock & Sour Cream flavor! Specially created on the Farm for St Patrick’s Day & available for a limited time only, we want you to celebrate the “Taste of the Irish” with Keogh’s this March!”

Tom Keogh told World Irish “The idea for a Shamrock crisp came from our absolute pride in being Irish farmers and a constant need to be innovative in our offering, we are very excited about them and already have interest from abroad.”

They are producing the chips in association with Living Shamrock, in Ballinskelligs, County Kerry. This is the companies who have been producing fresh shamrock for US presidents since 1952.

For more information visit their website www.keoghs.ie.