Update: Shananigans is the best place to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, according to New Port Richey Patch readers. This established earned 91 of the 133 votes cast in this week’s poll, handily beating second-place winner Malone’s Irish Pub.

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St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner and lots of people like to get out and celebrate the occasion. The New Port Richey area is fortunate to have plenty of great local places that are more than ready to oblige.

This week we’d like to find out just which of those places is your top pick for St. Paddy’s.

Here are some of our favorite places, but if we're leaving one off of the list, please let us know in the comments section and we'll add it:

• Molly Malone’s Irish Pub
• Beef ‘O’ Brady’s
• Blarney Stone Irish Pub and Eatery
• Fitzgerald’s
• Shananigans
• Cricketers 54

Voting in the poll below is open until 9 a.m. Friday. Ties will be broken by whichever location has the most positive comments in the section below. We will announce the winner at noon Friday.

Keep in mind that we can add to the poll, but only until 5 p.m. on Monday, March 12, just to be fair!

So vote for your favorite place in the New Port Richey area to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day! And don't forget to tell us in the comments section why.

Editor's note: This article was updated at 2:35 p.m. March 16 to crown the winner in this week's polling.