'Paint the Town Black' with Brother Paul's St. Paddy's Day Bash

Sunday, March 17 Brother Paul's in Eagleville will help to "paint the town black." With a special event sponsored by Guinness and Smithwick's, the local pub has much planned for the big day. Just ask bartender Lydia. (See the video in our media section.)

Patrons can be taken back to the Emerald Isle with a little live bag pipe music, along with a performance by the band DUI Cugino.

"We're going to open the outside bar, we have bagpipers, we have a band coming," said owner Paul McCreavy. They even have Irish dancers coming in.

"Our tap handles are going to represent more of an Irish bar," he added. "We're going to have Guinness, which we always have, Smithwick's, Harp, Magners."

McCreavy also plans on having local brewery Sly Fox's Seamus Irish Red on hand.

Guinness specials will be served both inside at the bar, dining room and also in the new outdoor patio areas. Irish food will don the menus.

"We have a whole Irish menu," McCreavy said.

"Bangers and mash, shepherd's pie, corned beef and cabbage, salmon and lox, which are actually an Irish thing, potato soup and I'm missing one other thing," he laughed.

This is the innaugural St. Patrick's Day event for Brother Paul's, but McCreavy said with the new outside bar, his place is ready to host a top-notch party.

The pub is also participating in the Guinness Gives Back campaign. The popular Irish beer distributor will pledge $1 to the Leary Firefighters Foundation for each person that texts 878787 with their first name only. The foundation supports local fire companies and their families.

Each text will also get patrons one step closer to the company's goal of the "$100,000 Pour." 

For more on Brother Paul's St. Paddy's Day Bash, visit the bar's Facebook page here.