I visited the folks in Longford with the kids this year. There are parades in most big towns for the kids. The big parade in Dublin is always tourists and families ( you can usually spot the tourists by the vegetation stuffed into a shirt or jacket pocket, not many Irish people do that)
For most Irish people, it's just a paid day off work, with some going out drinking with friends and others like myself it's a day where the creche is closed and there are little creatures to be entertained.
I'm baffled that the republicans thought putting a senile proven fraudster, insurrectionist and sexual predator with a bunch of pending court cases against him was a good idea..
Ah this again.. BMW offers an indicator subscription.. you get 10 free flashes per month, and then if you haven't bought in, it's pay per flash.. sheesh.. how is that hard to understand? ¯(ツ)/¯
It wasn't 1 company that dominated ,many had mp3 players out. Some of the bigger name brand ones would have been the likes of Sony (after they gave up on the mini disk) and Creative, but there were many others in the early 2000's.
If you're Danish. He gave you a free beer.