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St Patrick's Day parade puts Irish in high spirits

China Daily | Updated: 2009-03-18 07:46

St Patrick's Day parade puts Irish in high spirits

A boy in a festive costume enjoys a St Patrick's Day parade in Belfast, Northern Ireland, yesterday. AP

An estimated 500,000 Irish people, immigrants and tourists lined up along a parade route in Dublin yesterday to celebrate St Patrick's Day - a national holiday dimmed this year by an economic recession and rising violence.

St Patrick's Day parade puts Irish in high spirits

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