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Voices: Don’t use St Patrick’s Day as an excuse for your binge drinking

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My most significant St Patrick’s Day memory took place around 2011. Me and my girlfriend shared a box of cheap wine in our flat, then went to a pub down the road where one of our favourite local bands was playing.

We all did a , then I badgered them into letting me sing “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay” by Otis Redding. When I took the stage I immediately realised I didn’t know

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