St. Patrick's Day only serves as an excuse to drink heavily on a workday. Here in Boston, even if March 17th is on a Saturday or Sunday, they will "observe" it the following Monday so that all the state workers can still get a day off to get deep in their cups.
Most of our holidays have lost their original meaning. Labor Day and Memorial Days are now seen as bookends for summer and days to cook on the grill or go to the beach. Most people don't even take five seconds on those days to honor our war dead or working people.
Independence Day is now called "4th of July" and is another day for grilling food - only you get fireworks too.
President's Day is a day for buying a new car. (By the way, even that day is a joke because it used to be two separate days to observe Washington's Birthday and Lincoln's Birthday).
Thanksgiving is a day to stuff yourself and watch football. Christmas is a day to exchange gifts, stuff yourself and watch football.
New Year's Day is a a day to nurse a hangover and eat leftover Chinese food from the night before. And watch football.
Easter and Halloween are for dentists. Allow your kids to consume mass quantities of candy and then make a dental appointment. Easter has the added bonus of an "easter egg" hunt and a re-run of Wizard of Oz at night.
Valentines Day is set aside for Hallmark and the restaurant industry. And dentists too.
Why don't we just simplify things and designate every fourth Monday as a "holiday" to do whatever you want. We don't have to burden ourselves with observing anything other than recreational activities for ourselves.
Means something to me St patrick did not champion anything non compliant with catholic teaching. Messing with that is not good