Snakes

[Pudcat]

I know that St. Patrick is supposed to have driven all the snakes out of Ireland but are there any there. Still.

[Hopkirk]

Have you been listening to religious fairy tales again?

[bookbinder]

The story about St. Patrick looks like a PR job from his publicist, because, according to this link, there never were - and still aren't - any snakes in Ireland.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/93417/why-are-there-no-snakes-ireland

[gingejbee]

...ah, but the Irish are very gullible when it comes to their saints...

[maggiebee]

Not sure about St Patrick, but my understanding is that there are no snakes in Ireland.

[douglas9401]

Most of the few hang around northern areas and require vast sums of money to control them.
They tend to congregate round a magic money tree tended by St Theresa.

[sandyRoe]

St Patrick doesn't get the credit he deserves for banishing the moles, as well.
If you've any kind of a lawn in your garden you should be thanking him for the fact that you don't have molehills to contend with.

[Spungle]

There is a poster in the shop on the Belfast-Stranraer ferry titled ST PATRICK DRIVING THE SNAKES OUT OF IRELAND, and a photo of the good saint driving (literally) onto the ferry in an open-top Beetle full of pythons and anacondas!

There are plenty of snakes in Belfast, on both sides of the wall :)