Update: Licensing board finds Dillon's did nothing wrong.
A couple of Irish brothers in town for the holiday who figured they'd check out Dillon's on Boylston Street ended their night at the fire house next door nursing fresh cuts on their foreheads from where a bar regular decked them after they refused to leave for being drunken arses on St. Patrick's Day eve, police and the bar's manager told the Boston Licensing Board today. Read more.
Michael Spicher took in the return of the St. Patrick's parade down Broadway, after two years of cancellations due to Covid- 19. Read more.
Mayor Walsh (yes, he's still here) announced yesterday that unlike the rest of the state, Boston will not be allowing live music to resume at smaller venues and restaurants on Monday, but will instead wait until March 22, "if public health data allows."
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Boston police officers did nothing wrong when they walked through an open door into a boisterous party at East 6th and O streets on St. Patrick's Day in 2013 in response to a noise complaint - and wound up arresting several partygoers after a shoving match broke out. Read more.
Leprechauns know to pick up their last-minute holiday supplies at the Roche Bros. in West Roxbury.
Also spotted: City Councilor Matt O'Malley, in a green scally cap, visiting his ancestral retail homeland.
The Dorchester Reporter reports that after South Boston started trending nationally on Twitter yesterday, the neighborhood watering holes have agreed to voluntarily stay closed today.
The Dropkick Murphys are famous for their annual St. Patrick's Day concert. Times like these mean no concerts, of course - unless you do it from a studio and stream it out over the Internet, which is what they'll be doing at 7 p.m. on Tuesday on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook Live.
Update: Seems all the bars closed early for the night. See the comments for more.
City Councilor Michelle Wu (at large) was a bit aghast when she saw this photo from South Boston today on the eve of its cancelled parade: Read more.
Transit Police report arresting eight alleged knuckleheads on St. Patrick's Day, all from out of town. Read more.
Kelley O'Shea snapped a photo of what she saw in South Boston this afternoon after her nieces and nephew alerted her to "some moron" hanging off a fifth-floor deck.
Scituate, the most Irish town in America, had its St. Patrick's Day parade today. Read more.
Redsox 223 took in the St. Patrick's parade in South Boston today.
It was a bit nippy today, so as Eileen Murphy shows us, Keegan, Delaney and Kaylee Nolan of Nashua, NH, got bundled up (especially Delaney): Read more.
Rovin' UHub photographer Jed Hresko captured a Dewey Square fruit vendor this morning all ready for the day.
Laurel Ruma captured Mrs. Mallard and her ducklings in their St. Patrick's finest today.
Popoulis asks:
Where can folks find corned beef and cabbage for lunch downtown on Friday?
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday handed a warning to the Tasty Burger on L Street for the beer-holding people Boston Police detectives said they found loitering outside its pick-up window during the St. Patrick's Day parade this year. Read more.
Arturo Gossage took a lot of photos at the St. Patrick's Day parade in South Boston.
Copyright Arturo Gossage. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
The mayor's office showed this video at the St. Patrick's Day breakfast this morning.
MBCrowley gives us a little St. Patrick's Day/Keytar Bear selfie in Copley Square.
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