Bars will open at 5:30 AM, the earliest time that the state of Ohio
allows.

On Mar 9, 2005, at 12:48 PM, David Fahey wrote:

> For decades Miami University (Ohio) students and their favorite uptown
> bars
> have celebrated Green Beer Day on the Thursday before Spring break.  A
> hostile university administration, aggressive policing, and predicted
> bad
> weather should make 2005 relatively uneventful.  Yes, the beer is
> colored
> green.  And, yes, the bars do open early to help everybody get drunk
> before
> breakfast.  Ironically, until the 1970s Dublin bars couldn't sell
> alcoholic
> beverages on St. Patrick's Day which was considered an Irish religious
> observance and not carnival.
>