Links For Saint Patrick's Day

Ay begorrah!  Top o' the blogosphere to ya.  Today is the feast of St. Patrick, the missionary who brought Christianity to Ireland.  Although strongly identified with that country, he was actually born in Britain.  Contrary to popular legend, he didn't drive the snakes out of Ireland, because there weren't any native snakes there in the first place.  Although he called himself "Patricius" when he wrote his Confessio and Epistola, his real name is believed to have been Maewyn Succat.  Our modern notion of St. Patrick might have him conflated with another missionary sent to Ireland, a bishop known as Palladius.  So if you're Irish, either normally or just today, wear your green clothing (or orange if you're Protestant), drink some green beer, and eat some corned beef and cabbage (which also seems to come with carrots and potatoes).  And as with any day, read the following stories:

From The Irish Times, Ireland gets ready for a winter storm.

From The Federalist, why some people should wear orange today.

From The Local FR, French President Macron and German Chancellor Merkel promise an E.U. "reform roadmap".

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey's prime minister "blasts" an E.U. motion against his country's invasion of Syria's Afrin region.

From the Express, U.K. Prime Minister May was reportedly forced to give some concessions to secure a Brexit transition agreement.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From Sputnik International, a Brexit campaigner believes that the E.U. fears a prosperous post-Brexit United Kingdom.

From Russia Today, according to an Australian reporter, white farmers in South Africa are being attacked on their lands.

From Flanders News, more migrants are being detained in West Flanders.

From the International Business Times, did ISIS hack photos of Meghan Markle?

From the Mirror, footage of the Pulse nightclub massacre.

From OPIndia, an Indian Muslim doctor is told that organ donations are un-Islamic.

From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, in Kabul, Afghanistan, a suicide car bomb kills barbers and shoeshiners.

From Gatestone Institute, more on the German interior minister who said, "Islam does not belong to Germany".

From Step Feed, some items on Arabic menus get lost in translation.

From Time, an engineer noticed cracks in the FIU bridge two days before the collapse.  (via HotAir)

From the New York Post, three more bodies have been found under the collapsed bridge.

From Townhall, "the left's favorite pejorative".

From the Richmond Times-Dispatch, in the NCAA tournament, first-seeded Virginia loses to 16th-seeded UMBC, and it wasn't even close.

From Asia One, some weird Chinese names for western celebrities.

And from Wired, the weird story of the purple aurora phenomenon known as Steve.