New Irish Festival Kicks Off in Hoboken
Hundreds showed up on Wednesday between 4 and 10 p.m. at Frank Sinatra Park.
While it lacked the pomp and ceremony of the usual parade or the intoxicated frolic of the new Leprecon, the city of Hoboken's first ever Irish Cultural Festival entertained hundreds of people, including many young children, at Sinatra Park on Wednesday night. Chris Halleron, a longtime Hoboken resident and an Irish American, helped organize the festival. Halleron said he hoped the festival will become a companion to the city's annual St. Patrick's parade, which this year was canceled after the committee that has organized it opposed Mayor Dawn Zimmer's proposal to move the march to a weekday. Zimmer said that a rise in excessive partying in recent years on parade day has come to endanger public safety. The committee countered that moving…
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7:41 am on Monday, March 19, 2012
Looks like a lot of little kids having a blast. http://hoboken.patch.com/articles/hoboken-holds-first-ever-irish-cultural-festival#photo-9335868 Wonder if the little Bajardi child was there. Probably not. They have to treat events that might reflect positively on the mayor as Hitler Youth Rallies and shun them. First rate parenting there, Lane & Kim. Remember: politics are ALWAYS more important … more ›