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Dublin cancels their annual Saint Patrick's Day festival for the second year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event will instead be held virtually on a special online TV channel. [https:--www.rte.ie-news-2021-0120-1190884-st-patricks-festival- (RTÉ)]Cork, Limerick, and Ennis have all cancelled their respective Saint Patrick's Day parades for the second year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [https:--www.rte.ie-news-munster-2021-0120-1191023-st-patricks-day-parades- (RTÉ)]COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland
2021-01-20

Dublin cancels their annual Saint Patrick's Day festival for the second year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event will instead be held virtually on a special online TV channel.
2021-01-20

U.S. sportswear company Nike, Inc. controversially gives its new Saint Patrick's Day runner the name "The Black and Tan", prompting comparisons from concerned netizens with the controversial British paramilitary unit, which was known as the Black and Tans.
2012-03-16

Taoiseach Enda Kenny visits President of the United States Barack Obama at the White House for the annual Saint Patrick's Day festivities. Obama announces he is to visit Ireland in May and is excited at the prospect of visiting the home of his great, great, great, great, great, grandfather in Moneygall.
2011-03-17

Vice President of the United States Joe Biden makes an error when he suggests that Cowen's mother is dead.
2010-03-17

President of the United States Barack Obama meets Taoiseach Brian Cowen at the White House in Washington, D.C., United States.
2010-03-17

More than half a million people fill the streets of Dublin for the parade there.
2010-03-17

Taoiseach Brian Cowen departs for the United States ahead of his Saint Patrick's Day engagements with President Barack Obama.
2010-03-12