So classy.

Via NY Times:

… Mr. de Blasio made headlines last month with his decision to boycott the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Fifth Avenue, which prohibits expressions of gay pride, although he also rejected calls by gay groups to keep city employees from marching in uniform. His boycott ruffled some Irish New Yorkers and cheered others.

Malachy McCourt, the writer and memoirist, said he had little sympathy for Mr. de Blasio’s critics.

“My attitude is, St. Patrick banished the snakes from Ireland and they all came here and they became conservatives,” Mr. McCourt said in an interview. “You eventually become the thing you hate the most.” (Mr. McCourt did say the mayor was misguided on the Central Park horses, which, he noted, “have been around since before Lincoln.”)