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DATED MATERIAL DATED Make it YOUR job ® to grow the Order —HIS EMINENCE, PATRICK CARDINAL O’DONNELL of Ireland Vol. LXXXV No. 2 USPS 373340 April-May 2018 1.50 McKay speaks out on Good Friday Agreement at 20 In This Issue… Hibernian of the Year Joseph Casler Page 15 Rest in Peace By Neil Cosgrove pursue Brexit could imperil the agreement and the peace it has established. Judge McKay appeared before the committee with On March 22, 2018, and a month before the 20th anniversary of fellow witnesses Brian Gormally, Director of the Committee on the the Good Friday Agreement, out Worthy President Judge James Administration of Justice, and Mark Thompson, Director of McKay testified before the Helsinki Commission on Security and Relatives for Justice. Cooperation in Europe. The Commission, at the behest of Co-Chair In his testimony, Judge McKay noted the accomplishments of Chris Smith of New Jersey, was holding a hearing, “The Good the Good Friday Agreement. “During the past 20 years, a Friday Agreement at 20: achievements and unfinished business,” generation has grown up in Northern Ireland without knowing the to review the status of the implementation of what panel member fears and anxieties that constant violence inflicts upon Congressman Brendan Boyle described as the “unquestioned gold communities.” The Judge also noted, “The economy in Northern Kitty Geissler standard in terms of peace agreements.” However, Congressman Ireland has made significant advances since the Troubles, and LAOH National Life Member Smith and Boyle both expressed their concern that lack of despite setbacks from the global recession, the North of Ireland has Page 11 significant progress in implementing key provisions of the agreement and the new challenge posed by Britain’s desire to continued on page 5 On Parade AOH celebrates St. Patrick Andrew Stafford Page 27 State News Alabama . .12 California . .17 Colorado . .12 Connecticut . .14 Georgia . .17, 18 Kansas . .15 Kentucky . .18 Louisiana . .15, 16 Illinois . .12 Indiana . .14 Massachusetts . .17 Minnesota . .14 Missouri . .17 New Hampshire . .19 New Jersey . .9 New York . .19, 21, 22, 23 New Pennsylvania . .18 South Carolina . .21 Hibernians paraded proudly all over the country in March in honor of St. Patrick, as you’ll see throughout this issue of the Digest. Here, Virginia . .20 Rockland County’s Irish pride was on display in its 56th annual St. Patrick’s Parade in Pearl River. Grand Marshal, AOH Division 5’s West Virginia . .19 Emmett Woods, was escorted to the reviewing stand accompanied by Kevin McAleer, AOH Edward V. Larkin Memorial Pipe Band leader. Wisconsin . .14 LAOH . .24 Photo by Robert Reers. AOH NATIONAL BOARD OFFICERS APPAREL Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi – AL . National Chaplain. [email protected] Rev. Michael Healy – CA. Deputy National Chaplain. [email protected] Rev. Patrick Collum – LA . Deputy National Chaplain. [email protected] James F. McKay III – LA . National President / WA . [email protected] WOMEN’S LAOH OR, CA, CO Daniel O’Connell – OH . National Vice President . [email protected] APPAREL ALSO AVAILABLE 2018 National Convention Chairman, Louisville Jere Cole – NJ . National Secretary . [email protected] Sean Pender – NJ . National Treasurer . [email protected] Dan Dennehy – NY . Nat’l Director Immigration . [email protected] Chairman / Liaison Metropolitan NY City Liam McNabb – NY . Nat’l Director / Liaison NY . [email protected] Thomas O’Donnell – PA . Nat’l Director / Project St. Patrick . [email protected] Liaison PA, NJ Dennis Parks - OH . Natl. Director/ Liaison OH, VA. [email protected] WV, MD, DE, DC, MI William Sullivan – MA . Nat’l Director / Liaison ME. [email protected] MA, NH, VT, RI, CT John Wilson – MO . Nat’l Director / Liaison MO, IL. [email protected] IN, KS, NE, MT, IA, OK James Kuhn – LA . National Legal Counsel /. [email protected] Constitution Committee Michael McCormack – NY . Historian / Archivist . [email protected] Timothy McSweeney – NY . Organizer . [email protected] John O’Connell – NY . Editor . [email protected] AOH2 0 1 8 .ITEMORDER.COM Paul Gowdy – MI . FFAI Chairman . [email protected] Michael Mellett MD . Deputy FFAI Chairman . [email protected] Ted Sullivan – GA. Charities and Missions Chairman . 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[email protected] JEFF NISLER . Online Editor . [email protected] 2 National Hibernian Digest, April - May 2018 President’s Message Vice President’s Report by Jim McKay III by Danny O’Connell All Hibernian eyes will be turning to Louisville for our convention in the middle of July Brothers, the 2018 convention is upon us and we need you to join us in Louisville to this year. Your Executive Board as well as the liaison in Kentucky have been working help make it a success. If you haven’t already, take a moment and book your room and diligently to put together something special for our Brother and Sister Hibernians at this package today so you can help shape the future of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in gathering. America. The local committee has outdone themselves in preparing for convention By the time you read this, Easter will have come and gone and hopefully spring will success and you will be impressed with the Louisville hospitality. The committee has have sprung in your area. Old Man Winter has not been cooperating as of late and I know obtained sponsors to provide complimentary beer during each of the three events and plenty of areas have had record snowfall this year. I had the opportunity to represent our table wine for Irish night and the closing banquet. National Order at the White House this year