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To: SpudFarmer who wrote (1543)	3/17/2000 10:21:00 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

Hey Spud...You Irish...? Is it possible the nuc. plant will be named after Lord Mount Batton...??....hmmmmmmm Crowds Celebrate St Patrick's Day, a Few Protest DUBLIN (Reuters) - Half a million people gathered for Ireland's St Patrick's Day parade on Friday while a few dozen chose to protest against a controversial British nuclear reprocessing plant just across the Irish Sea. As crowds of revelers braved chilly weather in central Dublin for the traditional parade, around 30 people assembled outside the British Embassy in the south of the city to highlight concern at radioactive discharges. ``We believe Sellafield (plant) is the greatest environmental threat to Ireland. This is a friendly message to (British Prime Minister) Tony Blair that people on both sides of the Irish Sea have had enough of contamination,' Nuala Ahern, Green MEP for Leinster, told Reuters. Demonstrators held placards bearing the face of Homer Simpson the hapless cartoon hero who works at a nuclear plant and the logo ``Not dumb enough to run Sellafield.' There is mounting concern about safety at Sellafield after a report from Britain's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate criticised British Nuclear Fuels Ltd for management lapses that allowed staff to falsify quality-control measures. St Patrick's Day celebrates Ireland's patron saint, who is associated with introducing Christianity here in the 5th century. He is also credited with driving snakes out of Ireland. But the holiday, now a celebration of all things Irish that attracts thousands of foreign visitors to Dublin every year, increasingly is becoming the focus for protest action. INTERNET PROTESTS On Thursday, an Internet group devoted to helping people trace their Irish roots took advantage of public interest in the festival to launch a campaign to bombard the Department of Health and Tourism with e-mails. The e-discussion group, Soc.Genealogy Ireland, wants officials to improve facilities for genealogical research, a key attraction for the 40 million Americans who claim Irish descent. U.S. citizens were expected to make up a large part of the tens of thousands of visitors who flew into Dublin this weekend. ``I came to meet up with some people and this is part of it. My mother's family comes from Ireland. I'm really looking forward to this,' said Joseph Haller, an information technology specialist from Rhode Island. Some 3,000 Americans were to perform in Friday's parade, which was to include 22 marching bands, a girls' high school band from Hiroshima and street theater performers from Barcelona. The festivities will also be broadcast through 350 public television stations in the United States. The celebrations, which will also see stars of screen and stage flock to Dublin, included street parties, a mammoth parade through the city center and the SkyFest 2000 fireworks display over Dublin's historic Custom House on Sunday evening. Hollywood siren Sharon Stone was expected to party in Dublin this weekend while British television personality Chris Evans was to host his TFI Friday program from the Irish capital. Among other events, Irish rock band U2 and Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi were to be given the honorary freedom of the city. Suu Kyi's son Kim Aris was expected to attend the ceremony on behalf of the Nobel prize-winning dissident. In a mark of improving relations with British-ruled Northern Ireland, some 200 people from largely-Protestant east Belfast joined a St Patrick's Day parade in Sligo on the west coast. The festival is often regarded as an Irish nationalist, Roman Catholic and republican celebratio