My favorite Irish drinking story:

I worked for a restaurant. Around 9 am the head manager gets there. An Irish manager then showed up a few minutes later, saying he was on schedule to open that day. Head manager told him "No, I did the schedule, you're off today..."

Irish manager goes home. Couple of hours later, head manager checks schedule to see who's closing and sees that he is supposed to close and the Irish manager was supposed to open.

Now head manager has to open and close. He calls Irish manager and asks him if he can come in and close that night.

Irish manager: "Dude, I'm Irish. It's 12 noon on my day off. I'm already hammered!"

;). God love em.