Michael J. Gibbons, President Emeritus of the Ireland-U.S. Council and Grand Marshall of the 248th New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade visits the NYSE. In honor of the occasion, Michael J. Gibbons rings The Opening BellSM.
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Mr. Gibbons will lead the parade up Fifth Avenue on Tuesday, March 17th. The parade begins at 11 a.m. at 44th Street, marches up Fifth Avenue past St. Patrick’s Cathedral at 50th Street and ends at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at 86th Street.
ABOUT THE ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE:
The Parade is the world’s oldest and largest civic parade and celebrates the faith of Ireland, Irish heritage and culture. The Parade marched for the first time on March 17, 1762 - fourteen years before the Declaration of Independence. It is regarded as the most popular parade in New York City, and honors Saint Patrick the patron Saint of the Archdiocese of New York and Ireland. The New York Parade consists only of marchers and each year hosts some 250,000 marchers, along with many great marching bands, bagpipers in marching formations, high-school and college bands from throughout the United States and from all over the world. The occasion is televised live nationwide for four hours by host station WNBC Channel Four to millions of households. The broadcast of the Parade was available for the first time in 2008 via the internet through the Parade’s web site and was broadcasted via satellite on The Travel Channel.
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