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(2/16, Tampa, FL)   The green beer starts flowing along with Irish Music and an Irish Buffet next month at the all-day St. Patrick’s Day Celebration at Mulligans Irish Pub at the Pebble Creek Golf Club on Saturday, March 17. Last year, over 1,000 Irish-at-heart showed up for some cold Guinness beer, Irish Corned Beef & Cabbage, and Irish Music and festivities.

With St. Patrick’s Day falling on a Saturday this year, the event will be an even larger, all day festival. “It amazes me every year how our moderately busy, neighborhood Irish Pub turns into a rocking, dancing party of all ages from students to families through retirees with total attendance over 1,000.  Many arrive dressed up in festive, Irish garb or end up wearing the hats, t-shirts and other Irish paraphernalia that we give away, says Mulligans Manager Matt Downey. 

 

“To handle the crowds, we use our Pub that seats 75, our new banquet room overlooking the golf course that holds over 200, a new covered outdoor veranda with tables for 100, and another seating for 100 in our open-air courtyard under 60-year-old grandfather oaks. It’s all part of Pebble Creek Golf Club and makes for the prettiest setting you will find for a fun, family-friendly St. Patrick’s Day.”

 

“Another big attraction besides flowing Green Beer, $3.50 16 oz. Bud Lights in Green Aluminum Bottles and cold $5 Guinness Pints is a tasty Irish Buffet with Corned Beef & Cabbage, Shepherd’s Pie, Bangers & Mash and other Irish favorites offered for $12.99. In the course of a day, we will go through over 100 pounds of corned beef”, Downey says, “We will also offer a limited Pub menu for lighter appetites. Being part of a Golf Club, we are used to feeding large crowds, and our chef has perfected his corned beef & cabbage recipe over the last 5 years.”

 

Irish Music will ring indoors and out along with pop favorites. From opening time at 9am, recorded Irish Folk & Pop music will play. Then at 4pm, the Live Music starts. Kirk Ingram plays from 4pm until 8pm. The Southside Band plays from 8pm to close, usually around 1 or 2am. There is a $4 cover after 4pm and kids are free. 

 

St. Patrick’s Day has been observed in Ireland as a religious holiday for over a thousand years. It is St. Patrick’s religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The first St. Patrick’s Day parade ironically was not in Ireland but in New York City in 1762 by Irish soldiers serving in the English military. In Ireland, pubs were mandated until the 70s to be closed on St. Patrick’s Day; this was lifted when the government decided it would be better for tourism to celebrate the holiday with open pubs. 

 

Mulligans Pub in New Tampa carries on the tradition with its St. Patrick’s Day BASH. Mulligans was opened in 2007 just before its first Bash. “When over 500 people showed up for our first Bash, we were unprepared for such a large turnout and my whole family worked the event”, says owner Bill Place. “Since then, it has doubled in size and we are very well organized with plenty of staff, seating, parking, and libations. I started Mulligans partly as a tribute to my Irish Grandfather, and it just seemed to fit with a very green golf course!

 

Mulligans Pub features a wood-beamed ceiling and copper-top bar with Irish murals on the walls, 9 flat-screen TVs and Irish golf course flags hanging from the rafters. The pub opens to a newly expanded banquet room and just completed outdoor veranda and courtyard that all overlook the Pebble Creek Golf Course.

 

Mulligans Irish Pub is open to the public 7 days a week from 9am to 9pm (10pm on weekends and until 1 or 2am on special holidays like St. Patrick’s Day). For inquiries, call (813) 973-3870 x225 or visit www.pebblecreekclub.com.    Their address is 10550 Regents Park Drive, Tampa, 33647 – located in the Pebble Creek Golf Club one block off Bruce B. Downs Boulevard at the Wal-Mart light.