From Dublin to New York Irish celebrate St Patrick's day

Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day! On March 17, hundreds of thousands of people across the world commemorated the Irish patron. The Japanese were the first to "turn green" during the Tokyo parade where the event is celebrated since the early 1990s. In Ireland, an estimated 500,000 people crowded Saturday into central Dublin for the St. Patrick's Day parade, a focal point for Irish celebrations worldwide and the start of the tourist season. In New York, thousands of revelers in shades of green jammed Manhattan's 5th Avenue for the 251st parade. In Washington, where the White House fountain was dyed green, the President Barack Obama, drank a pint of Guinness with Henry Healy, an ancestral cousin from Moneygall, Ireland, at The Dubliner pub. (Relaxnews)