Background: Tansey is the grand marshal of 2013 Union County St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New Jersey. “I work at the Union County Prosecutor's Office. I am an assistant prosecutor and the supervisor of the Special Prosecutions Unit at the Union County Prosecutor’s Office. He also owns Responsive Automotive Systems in Springfield.  A bagpiper with the Essex County Emerald Society Pipes and Drums, his family comes from Co. Roscommon.

The Newark St. Patrick's Day Parade  has chosen attorney and leading Irish American Patrick Dunican as Grand Marshal 2013. Newark is the oldest parade in the state first organized in 1936.

Background: Connolly has been appointed grand marshal of the 39th annual Greenwich St. Patrick’s Parade on Sunday, March 17. A life-long Greenwich resident, he still serves as what he calls the world’s oldest altar boy at Sacred Heart Church in Port Chester.

Before a festive mixture of dignitaries, revelers and members of the press, the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee installed Albert E. Smith as its 2013 grand marshal.

Al Smith IV will be named the 2013 Grand Marshal of the St.Patrick’s Day parade in New York this week, IrishCentral has learned. He is the great grandson of Al Smith, the first major Catholic candidate for president when he ran in 1928 and a major fundraiser for philanthropic causes. He is a former senior Wall Street executive who serves on several boards.

Proudly Irish American, New York City Council speaker, Christine Quinn has been named as one of the grand marshals of the Brooklyn West Indian Day Parade.

Paul Loftus, native of Ballina in Mayo, has been named the Grand Marshal for this year’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in Montreal, Canada. 2012 marks the city’s 187th celebration of St. Patrick’s Day.

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Protesters have turned down an appeal from Ireland’s Tourism Minister to abandon the Occupy Dame Street camp ahead of the St Patrick’s Day festivities in Dublin.

A former Grand Marshal of the Hoboken parade has accused city officials of intolerance against the Irish after they canceled the St.Patrick’s Parade.

NBC veteran Frank Comerford who plays a key role in televising the St.Patrick’s Parade in New York has been named 2012 Grand Marshal of the parade IrishCentral.com has learned.

NBC veteran Frank Comerford who plays a key role in televising the St.Patrick’s Parade in New York has been named 2012 Grand Marshal of the parade IrishCentral.com has learned.

From New York to Hot Springs, Arkansas, and from Rock Island, Illinois to New London, Wisconsin, thousands of people from a range of backgrounds will come together to cheer on and participate in St. Patrick’s Day Parades. Here’s a look at some outstanding Irish Americans around the country who have been chosen by their communities to lead the marchers, dancers, bands, societies, and floats down the parade route.

Read more: President Mary McAleese declines St. Patrick's Day NYC Grand Marshal invite

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Dorothy Hayden Cudahy, the first female Grand Marshall of New York City's Saint Patrick's Day Parade, has died. Known as the 'First Lady of Irish Radio,' her popular show Irish Memories broadcast from 1943 to 1990 and was an indelible part of the New York Irish scene for five decades.
 
Hayden Cudahy attained the distinction of becoming the first female grand marshal in the 226 year of the annual parade, when she was 66, leading 200,000 marchers in the nation's largest and oldest Saint Patrick's Day celebration. At the time she gamely remarked it was about time Irish women took center stage instead of being left standing in the wings.

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By: KENNETH HAYNES

New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has been named Grand Marshal of the 2010 St. Patrick's day Parade in New York.