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. >