The Luck of the Irish?

Yesterday was a "holiday," I suppose mainly for Irish people although it is printed on my Mark Rothko Wall Calendar and I don't believe he was Irish, so why is it there? (I just looked it up and Rothko was a Russian Jew, but 1 in 4 adults in America are of Irish descent.)

Anyway, also being a Russian Jew I did not celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but I did read about a few parades. One of them took place in Kentucky, where a 50-year-old mother of two was walking too close to a float in the local St. Paddy's parade and somehow her foot got entangled with one of the wheels and she was pulled under the vehicle and died on the way to the hospital. 

So from now until forever on St. Patrick's Day her kids will think of the freak accident that robbed them of their mother and their childhood. Now matter how you slice it, that's pretty bad luck.