St Patrick’s Day – Gold Coast’s top 5 Irish pubs

One of the worlds most celebrated cultural holidays is St Patrick’s Day. The luck of the Irish, those lucky little Irish folk have all the fun.

Traditionally a cultural and religious holiday, St Patrick’s Day commonly celebrates the arrival of Christianity in Ireland during the 5th century and of course patron saint, Saint Patrick, as well as all things Irish.

St Patrick’s Day isn’t just for the Irish in Ireland, but a global celebration everywhere in the world where the Irish people have set up shop.

And set up shop they have on the Gold Coast. There are plenty of places to enjoy a cold frothy Guinness or five this Paddy’s Day.

Gold Coast’s 5 top pubs for St Patrick’s Day

Darcy Arms, Surfers Paradise - your friends will be green with envy if they find out you went to Darcy Arms for an Irish breakfast.
Fiddlers Green, Surfers Paradise - an Englishman an Irishman and a Scotsman walked into a bar and had such a great time it wasn’t funny.
Clancy’s Irish Bar Mount Tamborine - if somewhere on the coast tear be a leprechaun’s pot o’ gold at the end of the rainbow, it would be Clancy’s on Mount Tamborine.
Waxy’s Irish Pub, Surfers Paradise - if you’d like to dance a merry jig with more revellers than you can poke a shamrock at, Waxy’s is your pub of choice.
Harrigan’s Drift Inn, Jacobs Well - if you’ve got the luck of the Irish to be near Jacobs Well there’s a likely looking pub which should be on your radar.

Brisbane Irish Festival 2016

If you’re thinking of heading up to Brisbane for their annual Brisbane Irish Festival, you’ll have a good crack as the Irish love is alive and well in the river city.

The day is more than dressing in green and having a drink or two, (it’s the main part for most of us, let’s be honest) the cultural celebration will also include many fantastic festivities across the city, the biggest of which is the annual St Patrick’s Day Parade along with:

Carnival ride for kids,
Live Irish music
Pipe band
Irish dancing
Gaelic sport exhibitions
Tug-o-war
And lots of Guinness

The festival will be held at the Queensland Gaelic Park in Willawong. For all the details visit their website.

Brisbane: St Patrick’s Day Parade

From 10:30 am, a sea of green will flood Elizabeth Street from Queens Park, making its way toward Edward Street and then Mary Street before finishing on George Street. More than 80 floats and displays will be on hand, with the entire CBD turning out to take in the sights of the St Patrick’s Day Parade.

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