26th Annual Bucks County St. Patrick’s Day Parade

PA State Senator Chuck Mcilhinney has been named Grand

Marshal for the 26th annual Bucks County St. Patrick’s Day Parade,

this Saturday, March 15th. A long time public official, Mcilhinney is now in

his second term representing parts of Bucks and Montgomery counties in

Harrisburg.

Parade day begins with a mass at St. Joseph the Worker

Church on New Falls Road in Levittown at 8 am. The Parade will kick off at

10:30 am from St. Joseph the Worker Church, and will proceed along New Falls

Road towards Conwell-Egan Catholic High School in Fairless Hills.

The theme for this year’s Parade is the beloved ballad “God

Save Ireland”, commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the death of T.D.

Sullivan, the author of the song’s lyrics, which became the unofficial anthem

of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.

Over 2 thousand marchers will be participating in the

Parade; including string bands, pipe bands, marching bands, Irish dancers,

local law enforcement and emergency responders, veterans, local businesses,

charitable organizations, St. Patrick himself, and many more.

Parade viewers are asked to bring canned goods and

non-perishable items that will be collected along the parade route by The

Ancient Order Of Hibernians, on behalf of their Hibernian Hunger Project.

The Parade’s Committee also hopes to continue to promote

awareness within the local Irish-American community of Tay-Sachs disease, a

deadly, genetic disease of the nervous system. Irish-Americans have a 1 in 50

chance of being a recessive carrier of this rare disease, and all those who

claim Irish descent are encouraged to contact the National Tay-Sachs &

Allied Diseases Association of Delaware Valley at 215-887-0877 or visit www.tay-sachs.org for more information.

Complete details of the Parade festivities can be found at

the Bucks County St. Patrick’s Day Parade’s Facebook page or at www.BucksIrishParade.com.