Hometown News: St. Patrick's Day

Today is St. Patrick's Day and the list is out of U.S. metropolitan areas with the highest percentage of Irish ancestry. Buffalo comes in at number eight nationally, with eleven percent, or over 126-thousand Erie and Niagara County residents, calling Irish their primary ancestry. Boston came in first, with 19-percent of the population claiming roots on the Emerald Isle. Eight other cities, including Buffalo, show at least ten-percent of their residents claiming to be of Irish descent. Irish-Americans are the second-largest ancestral group in the country, coming in behind German-Americans.