Thursday marks the halfway point to St. Patrick’s Day. Three South Jersey festivals are set to celebrate.

You may not want to wait ‘til tomorrow night to head over to Thatcher McGee’s in Pompton Lakes (www.thatchermcghees.com). You’ll need the luck of the Irish to find a place in the parking lot or at the bar.

Atlantic City casinos are doing whatever they can to draw in customers. It would probably be smart if they avoided offending anyone in the process.

Hard to believe it’s the last weekend of winter. By the time the weekend after this comes around — it will be spring!

Our food editor Rosalie Saferstein reports on some Irish restaurants where you don’t have to wait for St Patrick’s Day to feast on Irish cuisine.

February is not even over, but we already feel a wee bit of Irish spring in the air.