St Patrick was 'an immigrant': Irish PM Enda Kenny tells Donald Trump

Daily News & Analysis ^ | Friday, March 17, 2017 | PTI

[HotKat]

So was Hitler.

[HarleyLady27]

Oh that darn Leprechaun did it again...you just can't trust him can you...he will make trouble where ever he goes if you don't keep him in a cage...

[firebrand]

In high school the kids used to say Saint Patrick was half Italian and half English. The part of England (Britain) that his family lived in was under Roman rule. So there was no Italy and there was no Ireland and no England, but it makes a nice joke.

[ifinnegan]

Lol.

Some people have canned responses.

[ifinnegan]

“He was an involuntary immigrant, as were most of the early slaves in this country.”

Great point.

[Caipirabob]

I tell you, the people who, after the major division that has occurred in our nation over this issue, continue to insult legal immigrants by saying they are the same as illegal criminals need to be slapped so hard body parts fly off.

[Peter ODonnell]

Was he now? Did he land at Dublin or Shannon, do you suppose?

[HarleyLady27]

I've heard that a lot...St. Patrick Day is a day to have fun and drink Green Beer...

When I was younger I would do that, but now I just remember the places I've been on March 17th, the people I was with and the fun we had...

It was fun pulling a few ‘leprechaun’ jokes today...something my family always enjoyed doing...

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny caused a stir at the White House on the eve of Saint Patrick's day on Friday, pointedly telling President Donald Trump that the festival is in honor of an immigrant.

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The saint is believed to have been born somewhere in Britain. "And though he is, of course, the patron saint of Ireland, for many people around the globe, he is also a symbol of, indeed, the patron of immigrants," Kenny said.

Technically, St. Patrick wasn't an immigrant. He was taken from Britain and brought to Ireland as a slave to herd and tend sheep. (See: St. Patrick)

Liberals. They talk out of both sides of their mouths with such ease.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Illegal immigrants flooding our border...

Doughty. Stop letting the leftists dictate the terms we use.

There is no such thing as an 'illegal immigrant', nor is there any such thing as an 'undocumented immigrant'.

An immigrant is someone who's gone through the legal process to become either a resident alien or a naturalized citizen.

Someone who is here in the U.S. without going through the immigration process is an illegal alien.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Enda Kennedy is a man.

Seems you applied the idiot label without the requisite accuracy.

[Pollster1]

Saint Patrick was a legal immigrant. That one word makes all the difference. I want every illegal immigrant in the United States deported. No exceptions. My legal immigrant neighbors are wonderful people, and I wish we could attract more people like them to our country - with those people also coming legally. Democrats seem not to care about obeying the law any more. That's sad. I have no interest in compromise with them until they agree to respect the law and follow through on that agreement.

[rbg81]

Ah....another country begging to be invaded by Muslims.

I wonder how eager the Muslims will be to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day?

[SoFloFreeper]

Brought as a slave, wasn’t he?

[Jamestown1630]

My husband and I were fussing today - he was wondering how St. Patrick was supposed to have gotten rid of the snakes. I told him that there never were snakes in Ireland, and he said ‘No Way’. So I had to figure out why/where I had learned that there are no snakes in Ireland. Found this, won argument - I think...:

http://www.rte.ie/tv/scope/SCOPE4_show03_snakes.html

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Saint Patrick was a legal immigrant. That one word makes all the difference.

Technically, he first came to, what later became Ireland, as a slave. Now, once he escaped and later was ordained as a Bishop, he returned to Ireland as an immigrant. But, at first he was a slave.

I want every illegal immigrant in the United States deported.

Stop letting the leftists dictate the terms we use.

There is no such thing as an 'illegal immigrant', nor is there any such thing as an 'undocumented immigrant'. These are contradictions in terms.

An immigrant is someone who's gone through the legal process to become either a resident alien or a naturalized citizen.

Someone who is here in the U.S. without going through the immigration process is an illegal alien and should be called as such.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Ha ha ha ha ha. The Irish Prime Minister is a jackass.

St. Patrick kidnapped from his native Britain by Irish pirates and then sold into slavery. He was a forced Irish slave, not an immigrant.

Well, at least he agrees with Dr. Ben Carson.

[mulligan]

So what has that got to do with anything? Grow up and act like an adult.

[keving]

So Ireland doesn’t have its own heros for their own Day?

[Gene Eric]

Islam is a war plan. Kenny is an idiot.