Paddy’s Day Breakfast for €3 For A Family of 4

Every year, St. Patrick’s Day is a great day filled with celebrations. You can check out some events taking place throughout Ireland here. So, make sure you start with a good, hearty, breakfast to see you through the day. Aldi are offering amazing value for a Paddy’s Day breakfast that will keep the hungriest of your family members satisfied for less than €3!

• Brannan’s 8 Irish Pork Sausages – €0.79/227g
• Brannan’s Irish Thick Cut Back Rashers – €0.99/250g
• Brannan’s Traditional Black or White Pudding – €0.53/200g each
• Ballymore Crust Farmhouse Soda – €0.59/400g

TOTAL: €2.90

10 Facts you may not know about St. Patrick:

1. St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland, although he was born in Britain, around 385AD. His parents Calpurnius and Conchessa were Roman citizens living in either Scotland or Wales, according to different versions of his story
2. As a boy of 14 he was captured and taken to Ireland where he spent six years in slavery herding sheep. He returned to Ireland in his 30s as a missionary among the Celtic pagans
3. Miracles attributed to him include the driving of serpents out of Ireland. However, evidence suggests post-glacial Ireland never had any snakes in the first place
4. Wearing green, eating green food and even drinking green beer, is said to commemorate St Patrick’s use of the shamrock – although blue was the original colour of his vestments
5. Popular Irish toasts on St Patrick’s Day, include: may the roof above us never fall in, and may we friends beneath it never fall out
6. Legend has it that he used the native shamrock as a symbol of the holy trinity when preaching and brought the Latin alphabet to Ireland
7. St. Patrick’s Day was first celebrated in America in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1737. Around 34 million modern Americans claim Irish ancestry
8. It is believed that St Patrick died on March 17 in 461AD. It is a national holiday in Ireland, and on the island of Montserrat in the Caribbean, which was founded by Irish refugees. It is a bank holiday in Northern Ireland and a provincial holiday in the Canadian province of Newfoundland
9. St. Patrick was said to have proclaimed that everyone should have a drop of the “hard stuff” on his feast day after chastising an innkeeper who served a short measure of whiskey. In the custom known as “drowning the shamrock”, the shamrock that has been worn on a lapel or hat is put in the last drink of the evening
10. Dublin has a parade that attracts hundreds of thousands of people, while in Chicago the river is dyed green for a few hours. The biggest parade is normally held in New York

The above products are on sale in all 130 Aldi stores nationwide now. For more information see www.aldi.ie