Leaping leprechauns - partygoers fly high

Police prepare to shift students celebrating St Patricks day in Dundas street. Photo / Otago Daily Times

Otago University students party hard in Dunedin last night to celebrate St Patrick's Day before the police arrived to remove them.

"They were pretty good kids - it just got a bit out of control," scene controller Sergeant Hugh Tait said.

"It had potential to go horribly wrong."