st. patricks day

With a name like McShea, you know that I'm a wee bit Irish. And one food item that I look forward to at St. Patrick's time is Irish Soda bread. If you've never had it, it's like a combination raisin bread-rye bread, but looks more like a muffin. What?

Did you see the UFD in Saturday's Utica St. Patrick's Day parade?  Perhaps you spotted the shirts they were wearing.  They're available to the public on eBay.

The Irish car bomb (a shot of Irish whiskey and Irish cream dropped into a pint of Guinness) is a standard St. Patrick's Day cocktail, though its origins aren't commonly known.

You can drink by yourself on St. Patrick's Day (totally not fun) or at a house party (marginally fun) but what about mixing it up with friends and strangers alike at a bar DEDICATED to all things Irish and GREEN? You can go anywhere in and around Utica to celebrate, but here's our Top 7 pubs and bars that you simply MUST visit and knock back a Guinness or two or... !!

A large crowd turned out for Saturday's St. Patrick's Day parade in Utica.  While the parade took its regular route between Oneida Square and Columbia Street in Downtown Utica, the construction of the roundabout and the narrowing of Genesee Street brought crowds closer to the parade units this year.  From our sister station, WIBX, here are more than 100 photos taken along the parade route. Read Mo

New York City is home to the nation's oldest St. Patrick's Day parade and many upstate New York cities have followed in that tradition to stage parades in honor of the Irish patron saint. Check out videos from 5 great upstate New York St. Patrick's Day parades...

McDonald's Shamrock Shake usually comes once a year around St. Patrick's Day, but as the holiday passes, so does the elusive tasty beverage. Now you don't have to be in March (or Irish) to enjoy one year round.

Everyone knows that St. Patrick’s Day is the one day out of the year when we’re all Irish. And, apparently that translates into wearing anything green and silly we can get our hands on and having as much to drink as we can carry at one time. But, there’s another strange tradition that has developed in celebration of this day. We can’t explain it. Are Irish people really that into unnaturally green

St. Patrick’s Day brings out the superstitious side in all of us. Lucky charms come front-and-center this week as we head into the holiday weekend. Though St. Patrick’s Day doesn’t get the same love in cinema that other high-profile holidays receive, Hollywood does have a rich tradition of crediting “Lady Luck” for certain milestones and achievements. Here are 10 “lucky” movie quotes that you can

We've compiled some YouTube footage that has been loaded of the carnage that occurred Saturday along Hudson Street in Albany as anarchy broke out in the streets of the state capitol before the annual St. Patrick's Parade.

What should be a fun parade and prideful demonstration of Irish heratige turned very ugly over the weekend in Albany as a riot broke out among college-aged children who demolished cars and tossed beer bottles along Hudson Street in the New York State Capitol.

Here in Central New York,  our big St. Patrick's Day push was last Saturday with parades in Syracuse and Utica and the jubliant after-celebrations on Varick St.  But the holiday is, of course, this week.  So we'll assume you're not done celebrating just yet...