“March is the month designed to show people who don’t drink what a hangover is like,” suggested Garrison Keillor. No fear of that in Ireland on the 18th March. Humourist Frank Carson once said, “I’ll have a pint of Guinness with a pickled onion in it – it’s an Irish cocktail.” There’ll by a lot more than a single pint of Guinness raised in the Emerald Isle as well as Hibernian sons and daughters elsewhere on St. Patrick’s Day. Was it a coincidence that that the date chosen for National Potato Chip Day in the United States was three days earlier, on 14th March?