Early Saturday
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loaded with hundreds of
cups and dozens of bags of
emerald green and white beads. Not
much was left six hours later.
“It’s a great pleasure and a great
honor,” Fr. Mike told a crowd of
hundreds before the parade rolled.
News of Fr. Mike as Grand Marshal
traveled fast. People locally watched
the parade’s broadcast LIVE on WBRZ
Channel 2, and thousands watched from
around the world on WBRZ.com. The
celebration even made the news back
home in Athea, Ireland.
Eight days after the Wearin’ of the
Green, Mike’s friend Rodge wrote in the
Athea & District News:
“So what’s so unusual? Well the
convention in Louisiana and Mardi
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Gras particularly,
is that personnel
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various coloured beads –
necklaces, with what seems to be,
a limitless range – types, designs
to the onlookers. Indeed the public
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how many beads they can catch!
It was very different to any other
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a brilliant encounter with so many
expectant adults and children
waiting for arrival of the Floats. As
you can imagine the Americans
do everything in style and with
great panache.”
Here's to another great parade
celebrating the relationship between
South Louisiana and Ireland.
Sláinte!
GRAND MARSHALS
From Ireland
Given Posthumously
2019 Father Mike Moroney
2018 Patrick Mockler
2017 Deputy Sheriff Brad Garafola
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Corporal Montrell Jackson
2016 Rick Nevils
2015 Robert G. Hammett
2014 Colonel Mike Edmonson
2013 Sgt. Major Hillar C. Moore Jr.
2012 Timothy O’Brien
2011 Grandmas
2010 Michael Leahy
2009 Dick Bourke
2008 Matt Flynn
2007 Mike Rosney
2006 Harry Morel
2005 Junior Finnegan
2004 Denis Coffey
2003 Gary Mockler
2002 Ivar Quigley
2001 Mark Kelly
2000 Mayor Tom Ed McHugh
1999 Oldest Irish Club Members
1998 Richard Condon
1997 Judge Joe Keogh
1996 Bishop Stanley Ott
1995 Pat Screen
1994 Bishop Alfred Hughes
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1992 Sister Hennessy
1991 Veterans
1990 Hab Shingleton
1989 Vietnam Veterans
1988 Don Yesso
1987 TJ Moran
1986 Judge Joseph Keogh
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