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PUBLIC OUTCRY LEADS TO PETITION OF CONGRESS FOR ST. PATRICK’S DAY NATIONAL HOLIDAY RECOGNITION National survey results suggest millions believe St Patrick’s Day should be a national holiday New York (February 14, 2008) - In response to overwhelming public sentiment, the makers of Guinness, the world’s most famous Irish stout, are supporting Proposition 3-17, a national effort to make St.Patrick’s Day an officially-recognized holiday in the United States.

Vandals defaced pillars in the sanctuary behind the altar of St. Patrick's Cathedral with red paint or ink, disgusting parishioners at the landmark church yesterday. "They don't have respect for man or for God," Linda Reder, 47, said of the vandals after she lit a candle inside St. Patrick's. Police were investigating the defacement as a possible bias crime yesterday as the church roped off the defiled pillars. Cops described the markings as illegible scrawls that appeared to have been made with red paint or ink. The damage measures about 16 inches high and 2 inches wide, police said. A...