Athurs day has gotten so commercialised lately.

Alcohol marketing scam masquerading as a “cultural event”.

The marketing Dept in Diageo must be rubbing their hands in glee.

It’s just yet another excuse for people to get pissed – nothing more, nothing less

There’s a little mistake in the article, you say:

its aim is to celebrate the drink’s original founder, Arthur Guinness.

When you mean

its aim is to shamelessly boost sales.

What has become of journalism?

Happy St. Arthur’s Day. To the man who singlehandedly invented Guinness whilst driving the snakes out of Ireland and converting the natives. When’s the parade?

This is the third article on Arthur’s day from the Journal this morning. Might I suggest you place the word Advertisement over this! Ridiculous.

Never mind Arthur’s Day! It’s googles birthday. Lets all google like we’ve never googled before! remember though google is only 14 so no inappropriate questions!

Wasn’t Arthur Guinness a unionist? I mean all this hero worship crap glosses over the fact that he supported colonialism in this country and he was very much allied with the English elite and also he directly opposed any movements for independence.

His son also called Arthur Guinness was much much worse and he opposed Daniel O’Connell, Arthur voted against any attempts to repeal the act of union.

Then there is Arthur’s son Benjamin Guinness, who is worse yet again. Who said after being elected Lord Mayor of Dublin of the nationalists:
“Those wicked and worthless adventurers who would not only deprive our country of the advantages which, as a part of the British Empire, we enjoy, but who would overturn all the social arrangements of society.”

Representatives of the Guinness family spoke to the House of Commons in 1916 to recommend the execution of the 1916 rebels. So in short they are people we shouldn’t be celebrating at all.

Who celebrates Arthur’s day? What a load of arse!

To Gimmicky Days! load of B!

Arthur’s Day: paint the town blak, with vomit

just another excuse for. a piss up

Sure why don’t we have a murphys day while we are at it. Maybe a beamish, jameson and Bushmills day too.
Maybe on a Monday or Tuesday.

I’m only an occasional stout drinker but Guinness would ordinarily be my choice If I was going to have a pint of the black stuff. However, the concept of Arthur’s Day is so shamelessly cynical that it would put me off Guinness. Murphy’s or Beamish next time out for me. The 250th anniversary was a totally valid celebration. Beyond that it’s purely marketing cynicism, something we need less of as a society.

SO THERE!

pile of shite

Ah feck off Arthur, you celebrating yourself is the last thing on my mind. anyways one night on your stuff leaves a man on the pot for a week – so no thanks.

not until they sort out the staff in the dundalk brewery.

I bet the vast majority of those who celebrate Arthur’s day won’t be real Guinness drinkers.

its a brilliant example …of good marketing, makes me sick to the stomack how its been adopted as tradition http://youtu.be/9AqGR8UuO0E

Looking forward to a pint of Murphys.

Feed them drink , it keeps them quite while we rezone more medical centres and gravy train journeys..

Arthur’s Day is promoted by a UK marketing company to promote UK bands to perform in Ireland to celebrate an anti-Irish Unionist….hmmmm No will not be bothering with Arthur’s Day unless it’s Arthur Griffith Day March 31st!

Celebrate arthurs day by finding a pub that sells trouble brewing dark arts or one of the other small irish breweries, lovely pint and the profit will stay in the country.

did’ya all know that it is not on the same date ever year, but always on a Thursday? Because it’s Our Thursday. (Aur Thur’s Day, Arthur’s Day). The Ad lads must’ve stayed up all night downing pints o’ the Black to come up with that one.

suck that corporate cock!!

I’ll got out to the local but I’ll be on the diet coke (maybe we should celebrate “coke day”… oh wait! )
as I’m driving tomorrow. Sure I’ll have a few on friday.

Another made up day….

No – its an absolute load of PR bollox.

arthurs day me bollix its diagio ltd day they dont care about arthur guinness akk they want is to sell loads of drink

Rubbish!!

I’ll be enjoying the free gigs and having a pint of Beamish.

gimmick by successful company to sell more product!

No. The pint is too dear for me anyway.

Yes, with rousing Shortall as soon as she gets back with the cheap cans from the petrol station

Every day is Carlsberg day in my world.

No ,I won’t be celebrating Arthurs day……. The same reason we don’t celebrate BAYER day………..He invented heroin…. the comparison is valid…ask the battered wives and the kids that watched…The deaths from drunk drivers….The wasted lives…..Its like dancing on the graves of the victims of alcohol abuse. Diagio/drugpusher ,, Alcoholic/addict….same thing.

Can I just point out that people are actually complaining about a bloody decent excuse to go on the piss?? Okay, I know stereotype dictates that we Irish don’t need an excuse, but come on!!! Lighten up lads!!! And I’ve seen plenty of Irish bands billed to play tonight :)

Diageo has cut sponsorship of our choir (the Guinness choir) by half this year so no concerts with great orchestras this season. Will not be celebrating Arthur’s day.

Going to be celebrating it, while all ye moaners are stuck in work

I’ll celebrate Arthur’s day by thinking of all the children without fathers–cause they’re down at the bar and won’t make it back home. All the road fatalities. I’ll think about the fellow in the elevator at the Mater hospital who was in so much pain and told me he had cirrhosis of the liver (although there ARE other causes for that, we know). I’ll think about all the free floating anxiety in the culture provided by those who are obsessed with the next drink and where it’s coming from and how they’re going to pay for it. To the rent money that was given instead to Arthur. To all the lies it took to cover up the problems Arthur brought you. To all the early deaths. To all the accidents that wouldn’t have happened if only…for Arthur’s sake. I’ll think about the 19 year olds in 3′s and 4′s that wrap their bmws around trees at 2am on Sunday morning. Won’t see them at church anymore, will we?
Yes, Happpy Mother F&#*# Arthur’s Day,.
Oh, and I’ll think about all the oak trees that were cut down to make staves for the coopers over the years.

Bought 40 bottles of Carlsberg in the off licence earlier for €25. Have big weekend ahead – so no Arthur’s day Paddywhackery for me, mercifully. Carlsberg is still Diageo I know, but at least there margins not as high as in the boozer.

No I was too busy celebrating my birthday with my wife and two daughters much better fun AND we did great version of the scripts the man who can’t be moved guitar, bass and vocals. We were great by our account

Mine’s a Murphy if you please…

so a international event where a large amount of money is being spent and ireland is on the lips of so many people around the world is bad thing.

yes. To Arthur. hiccup

Have a Politics Lecture in Trinity from 6-7 so I suppose not! Life of a student I suppose..

stop giving out i can’t drink i have school for the kiddies in the morning but just enjoy stop moaning about it if you dont like the gimmick dont drink the Guinness simple..

It’s a great day!!

It’s only a bit of craic lads! I think a pint down the local with a band playing is nothing but good. Pack of moaners!