Vinny O Brien on why Irish pubs are everywhere. Irish pubs and Chinese restaurants show up in every major city worldwide. St. Patrick's Day ranks among the most widely celebrated festivals globally, with producer Aravine helping run London's festival through the mayor's office.
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bell. So all of these things combined is making for a very interesting, uh, time in Irish culture. I think outside of Ireland more than inside of Ireland, that's the— what's the odd, uh, thing. Oh, here's, here's one final piece on this. So if you look across the world, right, the— in every big town or city, there are two food and drink establishments that aren't from that town or city, that are that country. Number one, a Chinese, which is from a country of a billion plus people. And number two, an Irish pub. Yeah, it's not from a country of 4.5 million people or whatever it is, 5 million, whatever. So it's just, it's fascinating how Irish this is everywhere. And I actually had, um, coffee— I don't know if you know Aravine, he's a wicked DJ producer here, uh, and he was telling me, because he helps out the St. Patrick's Day Festival in London, working with the mayor's office there, and he was telling me that St. Patrick's Day is the largest festival in the world. It's the most celebrated by— in, in most— the most countries in terms of geographies and cities. Yeah, it's in