The thin blue line between love and hate

Alan: "Yeah. I think the Irish are going through a major image change. I mean, the old image of Leprechauns, shamrocks, Guinness, horses running through council estates, toothless simpletons, people with eyebrows on their cheeks, badly tarmacked drives in this country, men in platform shoes being arrested for bombings, lots of rocks, and Beamish."

- I'm Alan Partridge

Lewisham Police have provoked their very own Twitter storm with this celebration of Irish culture for St Patrick's Day. The Indy has a selection of the most irate responses. Lewisham Police have apologised and deleted the tweet.

Thanks to Joe for the spot.