Posted on 10/29/2015 8:34:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Dr. John Lahey, the chairman of NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Inc., the legal corporation responsible for the parade, has forcefully hit back at critics who charge that he and members of the corporation’s board are attempting to secularize the march and erase the influence of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the parade’s affiliated organizations. […]
Lahey also had a strong message for the AOH and the 170 organizations affiliated with the St. Patrick’s Day parade: There are no underhanded attempts underway to lessen their influence on the parade in any way, and a campaign by supporters of current Parade and Celebration Committee Chairman John Dunleavy to overturn recent board decisions is being fueled by lies and inaccuracies. […]
A number of board members and many financial backers of the parade are distressed by how Dunleavy has behaved as the public face of the event, particularly after this year’s march when he recorded a video on the parade’s Facebook page and claimed that gay groups would “have a hard time” marching in next year’s parade—even though the LGBT contingent in this year’s event, OUT@NBCUniversal, was widely accepted for being the first gay group to take part in the march. Dunleavy also took it upon himself to offer 2016 parade broadcast rights to other networks in retaliation for current broadcaster WNBC being part of the deal that secured the participation of OUT@NBCUniversal. …
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Just tell the homos to go have their own parade somewhere else.
They did, actually. But that wasn’t good enough for De Blasio and his boycotting ways.
Irish Central calls itself “global” and the usual words like sustainably, social justice, Diversity, collective, etc., you know, Communism.
Publisher Niall O’Dowd is a big fan of George Soros and prints many articles supporting Soros.
Indeed. Like AP, read most of what is written as its opposite meaning.
They have denigrated the St. Patrick’s Day parade to the Irish Day Parade. In 2017 the parade will probably be moved to always be the third Friday in march so everyone can drink green beer and get to the BIG TOYOTA SALE-ATHON!
Dolan has betrayed us and history will hang this around his neck.
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