62nd Annual

St. Patrick’s Day Parade

Honor Battalion

Parade Commander: Sgt. Colleen Fitzpatrick, New York Police Department (Ret.)

Orangetown Police Honor Guard

Rockland County AOH Banner

Town of Haverstraw Police Honor Guard

Rockland County AOH Edward V. Larkin Memorial Pipe Band

Grand Marshal: Patrick Withers, AOH Division #4

Colleen Latimer, LAOH County Board Thomas Liquori, AOH Div. #1

Lillian Murphy, LAOH Div. #2 Quinton Van Wynen III, AOH Div #3

Kim Coen, LAOH Div. #3 James Tesseyman, AOH Div. #4

Cailin Withers, LAOH Div. #4 Kevin Murtagh, AOH Div #5

Peggy Moran, Rockland Irish American Cultural Center

Niall Smith, Rockland Gaelic Athletic Association

Patrick Frawley, Rockland County Police Emerald Society

Paul Arico, Rockland County Shields

Matthew Ryder, Rockland County Police Benevolent Association

Kerry Pipers

Rockland County Parade Chairperson: William Lee

National AOH President: Sean Pender

National AOH Chief of Staff: Tim McSweeney

National AOH Political Education Chairman: Neil F. Cosgrove

National AOH Past President: Brendan Moore

NYS AOH President: Thomas Beirne

NYS AOH District 8 Director: Dr. James McLaughlin

NYS AOH Freedom for All Ireland: Martin Galvin

NYS AOH Audit and Finance Chairman: Brian Kelly

NYS AOH Veterans Chairman: Sean Hood

NYS AOH Past President: Martin Kelly

NYS LAOH President: Terry Meyer

NYS LAOH Treasurer: Maura McSweeney

NYS LAOH Freedom for All Ireland: Joan Moore

Rockland County AOH President: Dermot O. Moore

Rockland County LAOH President: Terry McGeever

Dean of Rockland County: Msgr. Emmett Nevin

Rockland County Hibernian of the Year: Mary O’Mahony Mulcahy

Rockland County Businessman of the Year Christopher Vergine, Wyman Fisher Funeral Home

Aide to the Grand Marshal, New York City: Daniel J. Mulligan

Judiciary, Federal, State, County and Town Officials

Rockland County Police Emerald Society Pipes and Drums

Rockland County Police Emerald Society

Rockland County Sheriff’s Department Police Color Guard

Rockland County Sheriff’s Mounted Patrol

Korean War Veterans Association, Eagle Chapter

Rockland Cadet Squadron – Civil Air Patrol

Color Guard and Members: American Legion Post 329
Rockland County Nurses Honor Guard

Port Authority Police Honor Guard

Port Authority Police Pipes and Drums

Color Guard and Members: American Legion Post 310

Guard and Members: Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 333

Rockland County Marine Corps League

American History Timeline

Bergen Irish Pipe Band

Jewish War Veterans of the USA

Veterans and Dignitaries in cars

Ramapo Police Honor Guard

Rockland County Firefighters Pipes and Drums

Pearl River Hook and Ladder

Rockland County FireFighters Emerald Society

Brewer Fire Engine Company No. 1

St. Raymond Academy Marching Band

ARC

Venture

Buddy Ball

The Music for Life Creative Arts Therapy

First Battalion

Battalion Commander: Elizabeth Kozman, LAOH Division # 3, Pearl River

Warwick Fire Department Color Guard

Police Pipes and Drums of Morris County, NJ

LAOH Division Members #2, #3 and #4

Saint Thomas Aquinas College

Rockland County Girl Scouts

Rockland County Sheriff’s Correction Division Honor Guard

Iona University Pipe Band

County Longford Association

Lynn Academy of Irish Dance

ZFIT Studio

St. John’s Academy of Hillsdale, NJ

Bright Beginnings of Rockland

East Ramapo Alumni Marching Band

Second Battalion

Battalion Commander: Martin Fogarty, AOH Division #5, South Orangetown

FDNY Emerald Society Honor Guard

FDNY Emerald Society Pipes & Drums

FDNY Emerald Society

AOH Members, Division #5, South Orangetown

St. Gregory Barbarigo School, Garnerville

Union Carpenters Pipes and Drums

Rockland Irish American Cultural Center

Denogla Academy of Irish Dance

Sword Light Pipe Band, IBEW Local 3

Clan Na Gael

Bobby Sands Memorial
Orange County NY AOH Pipes and Drums

Rockland Gaelic Athletic Association

Third Battalion

Battalion Commander: John Edwards, AOH Division #3, Pearl River

Paramus Police Department Honor Guard

Police Pipes and Drums of Bergen County

AOH Members Division #3, Pearl River

St. Margaret’s School, Pearl River

St. Margaret’s Parish and CCD, Pearl River

Inishfree School of Irish Dance

South Park and District Pipe Band

Pearl River School of Irish Music

Saint Dominic’s Family Services

County Offaly Association

Con Edison Emerald Society

Manhattan University Pipes and Drums

Clarkstown Police Honor Guard

Clarkstown Police PBA

Pearl River Lions Club

American Red Cross

North Rockland High School “Red Raider” Marching Band

Fourth Battalion

Battalion Commander: Michael Fennessey, AOH Division #1, North Rockland

NYPD Emerald Society Honor Guard

NYPD Emerald Society Pipes and Drums

AOH Division #1, North Rockland Members

Ridgewood School of Irish Dance

Ridgewood Irish Dance Booster Club

Ramapo Saints Youth Hockey

Palisades Predators

Rockland County Boy Scouts

Pipes and Drums of the Police Emerald Society of Westchester

Police Emerald Society of Westchester

Pelham Regional Pipe Band

Marie Moore School of Irish Dance

Fifth Battalion

Battalion Commander: Christopher Dodril, AOH Division #4, Suffern

Westwood Volunteer Fire Department Color Guard

County Cork Pipe Band

AOH Members Division #4, Suffern

Rockland County Knights of Columbus

East Ramapo Marching Band

Right to Life, Inc.

Scoil Rince Riordan Irish Dance

Elevator Constructors Local 1 of NY/NJ Pipe Band

County Sligo S & B Association, Inc

Bergen County Battalion Five Firefighters

Essex Shillelagh Pipes and Drums

Haverstraw Youth Group

Formation Committee

Orangetown Highway Department, James Dean, Superintendent of Highways

Trophy Donors

Timmy John O’Riordan Memorial (Donated by the Lee Family) – 1^st Place Large Pipe Band

In Memory of Piper Billy Kenney (Donated by the RCAOH Pipe Band) – 1^st Place Small Pipe Band

Connie and Breda O’Sullivan Memorial – Irish Cultures Organization

Munno’s Italian Deli – High School Band

John O’Hara Memorial (Donated by Murty’s Publick House) – 2^nd Place Small Pipe Band

Thomas P. and Bridget Teahan Kilgallen Memorial (Donated by Helen and Michael Murphy) – 3^rd Place Large Pipe Band

Joe McKiernan Memorial – 3^rd Place Small Pipe Band

Neil O’Sullivan Honor Guard Memorial (Donated by the O’Sullivan Family) – Color/Honor Guard

Annie A. and James P. Russell Memorial – Elementary School

Thomas Argenti Memorial (Donated by the Fatigate Family) – Government Agency’s

Mary Franklin Memorial – 2nd Place Large Pipe Band

Pat Tully Memorial – Irish Counties

TF Noonan’s – Special Organizations

Society of Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick – Catholic Organization

Raymond W. Sheridan, Sr. Memorial – Irish School of Dance

Luigi O’Grady’s Deli and Catering – Veteran’s Org. Color Guard and Members

Acknowledgments

The AOH St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee expresses their sincere thanks

to the following groups and individuals who helped make this parade possible:

Hon. Edwin Day, County Executive

Hon. Teresa M. Kenny, Orangetown Supervisor and Orangetown Town Board

Orangetown Parks & Recreation – Aric Gorton

Orangetown Highway Department – James Dean

Use of their facilities: Pearl River Hook & Ladder Co. #1

Use of their parking lot: IRG Realty, Pearl River, NY (Originally California)

The Ambulance Corps of Orangetown

Rockland County Paramedics

Rockland County Highway Department

Rockland County Times

Rockland Journal News

The residents and local businesses of Rockland County and specifically Pearl River, who support our parade

Special Thanks to Chief Donald Butterworth and Command Staff, Lt. Nicholas Whalen, Operations and the Orangetown Police Department and OEM PO Christopher Connolly, New York State Police, New York State Park Police, New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, Rockland County Sheriff’s Department, Rockland County Intelligence Center, Rockland County Office of Fire and Emergency Services, New York Police Department Counterterrorism Bureau, Metropolitan Police Authority, Clarkstown Police Department, Ramapo Police Department, Haverstraw Police Department, Stony Point Police Department, Piermont Police Department, Spring Valley Police Department and Suffern Police Department for their cooperation and assistance in the putting on of the Parade.

For Irish Events in and out of Rockland County, check out Rockland County AOH County Board, www.RocklandCountyAOH.com, LAOH County Board www.rclaoh.com, AOH Division 3, Pearl River www.praoh.org, AOH Division 4, Suffern www.suffernaoh.com

Parade Dedication 2026

In this 250th anniversary year of American independence, we dedicate this parade to the Irish men and women who helped forge this republic — and whose role in that founding was too long obscured.

The Irish were here at America’s beginning. Three signers of the Declaration of Independence were born in Ireland; four others were the descendants of Irish immigrants. The Declaration was attested to by the Continental Secretary, a native of Derry. Its first printing was by an immigrant from Tyrone, and it was first read in public by the son of a Wexford immigrant.

Rockland has a personal connection to the Revolution. On the night of July 15, 1779, Richard Butler, born in Dublin, Ireland, commanded the elite light infantry that stormed the British fortification at Stony Point, less than twenty miles from where we march today. It was one of the most daring American victories of the Revolution, won in part by an Irishman, on Rockland’s own ground.

Yet the Irish contribution to America’s independence was systematically airbrushed from the American story, as the Irish became targets of nativist hostility in the decades that followed. Their record was buried, and is too often still overlooked.

To the Irish patriots of the American Revolution, and to all who followed them in service to their country — we march today in joy and pride, and in the firm resolve that their story, too long overlooked, shall not be forgotten.

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh

God Bless America

God Save Ireland

Neil F. Cosgrove, Irish American Heritage Month Committee Chair