[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Happy St. Patrick's Day to you also!

The Hallmark cable channel has an hour long special on St. Patrick. Have you seen it? I watched it on tape last night. It was well done but I'm going to watch it again tonight because I didn't see anything about driving the snakes out of Ireland. Is that just a legend or an actual event?

[Siobhan]

A real event. But of course I am a believing Irish Catholic arch-conservative. Ask a Protestant or a liberal Catholic and get another answer.

[k omalley]

The History channel had a special on St. Patrick this evening. Their contention was that there were never snakes in Ireland but the snakes are simply symbolic of the evil he displaced with Christianity. As you know, Ireland was an extremely barbaric country prior to St. Patrick.