Happy St Patrick's Day to all with any Irish among their forebears.

The Fahies and Farrels amongst my forebears join with the Bachellers and Desmonds, with whom I am now joined by marriage, in wishing all the luck of the Irish to all connected with Ireland in any way whatsoever, wherever they may be across the entire globe.

Please take time to register the dreadful treatment presently being dished out to the small, once independent, nation of Ireland, by the increasingly tyrannical EU, details of which are fully available on this blog, which the head of the 17 Euro Group of countries, Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxemburg, described only yesterday, as being akin to "torture".