While most people enjoy a pint of Guinness and claim some sort of Irish ancestry - Heather Lydon was commemorating St Patrick's Day for a very different reason.
The 70-year-old lost her husband Michael last month to illness after nearly 27 years of marriage. She was quietly sitting enjoying the atmosphere at Hennessey's Irish Bar yesterday morning in honour of her late husband.
Mrs Lydon has fond memories of them visiting Ireland in 1992 and can remember how they would go to an Irish pub and have breakfast each St Patrick's Day.
"He was a full blooded Irishman and I've bought his [green] jumper with me. We used to always celebrate St Patrick's together each year," she said.
"I miss everything about him, I really miss his company. He loved his Irish music and country and western music and I'm here so his memory lives on."
Also taking part in the festivities were Rebecca Sanders, Andrew Smith and Greg O'Connor. The group feasted on the Ulster fry up breakfast which included a black pudding sausage, before taking their first sips of Guinness.
"To me it's the biggest event of the whole year," Mr O'Connor said.
"We all are part Irish and we're here to celebrate the dissipation of the snakes from Ireland - it was a big day. St Patrick's is much bigger than Christmas."
Hennessy's operation manager Sue Burnett said they had ordered 30 kegs of Guinness in preparation for St Patrick's. While it was a lot of beer, it was far from the pub's record of 88 kegs during the Lions tour in 2005 and 73 in 2011 when Ireland played in Rotorua during the Rugby World Cup.
She said band Touch of Irish were set to play last night and the pub was heavily booked for lunch and dinner.
"It is the busiest day of the year for us. Everybody can find a bit of Irish in them and even if they can't they can still enjoy the great hospitality here.
"It's always a great day, it used to be about the drinking but people really enjoy the atmosphere and the food."