> Pride is like St. Paddy's Day or Chinese New Year Having worked in Northern Ireland I can tell you that St Patrick's Day is loaded with politics there. The

> Pride is like St. Paddy's Day or Chinese New Year Having worked in Northern Ireland I can tell you that St Patrick's Day is loaded with politics there. The company got around it by giving both St Pats and 12th July as public holidays but allowing staff to voluntarily work them in lieu. Hence staunch loyalists could work on St Pats and take the holiday another time, whilst nationalists could work on Orangefest. Neither felt compelled to celebrate the other's festival. Being a naive Englisher 'Hun' I just took both days off and offended both groups equally. All discussion of politics and sports was banned at all times. That seemed quite easy to enforce.