Hibernia News

A former, volunteer treasurer for Hibernia Fire Co. No. 1 in Rockaway Township pleaded guilty today to stealing $69,870 from the organization over a six-year period.

The event benefits the Hibernian Hunger Project. Eight years ago, Alex Phinn started to feed homeless and low-income people after noticing the need in Bucks County and surrounding areas.

As the Congressional Natural Resource Committee in Washington, D.C., began yesterday to review federal responses to the dilemma, the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey launched an effort to monitor roosting spots where bats spend their summers in the state.

FREEHOLD - The Freehold Memorial Day Parade Committee has announced that the 135th annual Memorial Day Parade will be held this year on May 25th.

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Ireland's economic collapse has been so swift, so spectacular and written about in such apocalyptic terms on this side of the Irish Sea that I had been expecting famine-style scenes.

Anna Mae O'Connor is known around town as a mom who is pretty involved. While serving as president of the Parents Teachers Organization for four years, she juggled many duties, including one of the toughest for her - public speaking.

The National Museum of Great Irish Recessions is to open soon, and I was lucky enough to be given a private viewing by its curator, Dr Seamus Mac Anguish .

The cacophony of a parade about to begin included vendors calling out, "Hot pretzels heeeere," the constant blaring of stadium horns and the white-noise murmur of tens of thousands of people dressed in all things green and flooding the sidewalks.

Wedding vows were exchanged March 7 in St. Peter's R.C. Church, New Brighton, by Mary Margaret Molski of Richmond and Richard John Orazem of West Brighton.

A band marches up Broadway during last year's Bayonne St. Patrick's Parade. Thousands of spectators are expected to turn out Sunday for Bayonne's annual St.

With St. Patrick's Day right around the corner, everyone is getting in touch with their Irish side.

Seventeen people are missing in the frigid waters off Canada's Atlantic coast after a helicopter crashed while ferrying workers to an offshore oil platform, a search and rescue spokeswoman said on Thursday.

A helicopter carrying 18 people on its way Thursday to an offshore oil platform ditched in the Atlantic Ocean off Newfoundland, officials said.

The Ancient Order of Hibernians Division 16 of Freehold, New Jersey is this weekend celebrating its 7th annual 'Evening with the Irish' event during which it will honor Army Lt.

I'VE BEEN THINKING the fiscal crisis that threatens this year's St. Patrick's Day parade.

THE SECOND group of New Jerseyans to be inducted into the state's Hall of Fame will be almost as distinguished as the first.

The Ancient Order of Hibernians, John Cardinal O'Connor Division 32 of Belmar, recently held the annual installation of officers for the 2009 year.

"Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead In recent years one man, Greg Mortensen, has been making his mark on the ...

ROCKAWAY TWP. - The town is moving up to Feb. 28 its spring free rabies clinic amid rising concerns about pet encounters with bats due to a mysterious illness causing the winged mammals to flee hibernation and ...