Thousands of Yonkers’ locals, young and old, braved the cold on Saturday afternoon to make their way to the second annual McLean Avenue St. Patrick's Day parade which took place along the famous Emerald Mile.

Snow, coughs, house-hunting, babysitting and parading . . . it’s all in a week’s work for APRIL DREW as she and her family look forward to St. Patrick’s Day.

One of New York’s leading Irish American political figures has expressed her regret over the exclusion of LGBT groups from the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade.

Every March 17, soldiers of the “Fighting 69th” have been the first faces seen by parade goers in New York City, but how did the battalion lock up the best assignment of St. Patrick’s Day?

On March 23, 2013, McLean Avenue in Yonkers, New York will host its second annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The event commences at 1 p.m., and proceeds through the largely Irish neighborhood.

Almost 40 students from the University of Louisiana at Monroe will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland, when they march the capital’s annual parade.

The Council of Irish Associations of Greater Bergen County will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day all weekend. On Friday, March 8 at 8 p.m. the council will hold its annual St. Patrick’s Day Mass at the S.MA. Fathers, 23 Bliss Avenue, Tenafly, New Jersey. All are welcome. There will be refreshments and entertainment after Mass.

Prince William and Kate Middleton will visit the First Battalion Irish Guards at the annual St. Patrick’s Day at Mons Barracks in Aldershot, St. James’s Palace.

In a shock move, hundreds of firefighters including firemen from New York and Ireland have been barred from the Savannah, Georgia parade because of repeated drinking violations.

Green was the colour of resiliency yesterday afternoon as thousands upon thousands of embattled Rockaway residents turned up to celebrate the 38th annual Queens County St Patrick’s Day Parade at Rockaway Beach, just 4 months after their homes and businesses were ripped apart by Hurricane Sandy.

Hurricane Sandy was responsible for much death and destruction in New York last year. The people of New Jersey were some of the worst hit and are still recovering from the devastation caused by the superstorm. However, the community of Seaside Heights, New Jersey, are determined that Sandy will not prevent their 29th Saint Patrick’s Day Parade from taking place.

Despite the annual parade being cancelled for the second year in a row, thousands of people are set to gather in Hoboken this Saturday for the annual St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.

Organizers of Dublin’s St. Patrick’s Day parade have promised the annual celebrations will be the best yet, with the greatest ever number of overseas participants set to take part.

The news that the Rockaway St. Patrick’s parade may be in financial jeopardy is a distressing coda to all that happened after Hurricane Sandy.

Hurricane Sandy left a trail of destruction in the Rockaway Peninsula last October, but the one thing the storm couldn’t wreck is the annual Rockaway St. Patrick’s parade, even though organizers admit to being cash-strapped due to a lack of normal fundraising.

The West Coast’s largest Irish event celebrating Irish history and culture, the 162nd Annual San Francisco St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Festival, will take place on Saturday, March 16th at 11:30am. The Parade will start at the corner of Market and Second Streets where over a hundred colorful floats, Irish dance troupes and marching bands will wind their way to Civic Center Plaza for the St Patrick’s Day Festival. Building on the success of the last several years, the organizers of the Parade are expecting another memorable event.

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 news that Hoboken’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade has been cancelled for the second year running will come as unwelcome news for local business owners, still recovering from Superstorm Sandy. However, Lepre-Con pub crawl, will still go ahead.