St Brendan The Navigator Feast Day May 16th Ancient Order of Hibernians St Brendan the Navigator Division Mecklenburg County Division # 2 ISSUE # 3 MONTHLY NEWSLETTER VOLUME# 7 March 2015 Our next business meeting is on Tuesday, March 10th at 7:30 PM Holy Spirit Parish Center Denver 2015 Officers Chaplain Father Paul McNulty President Dick Seymour Vice President Lee Madden Secretary Tom Dowd Treasurer Chris O’Keefe Fin. Secretary Ray FitzGerald Standing Committee Joe Dougherty Marshall Sean Ragan Sentinel Ron Haley Past President Ray FitzGereld www.aohmeck2.org "Níor bhris focal maith fiacail riamh." Translation: "A good word never broke a tooth."
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St Brendan The Navigator Feast Day May 16th
Ancient Order of Hibernians St Brendan the Navigator Division Mecklenburg County Division # 2
ISSUE # 3 MONTHLY NEWSLETTER VOLUME# 7
March 2015 Our next business meeting is on Tuesday, March 10th at 7:30 PM
Holy Spirit Parish Center Denver
2015 Officers
Chaplain Father Paul McNulty President Dick Seymour Vice President Lee Madden
Secretary Tom Dowd Treasurer Chris O’Keefe
Fin. Secretary Ray FitzGerald
Standing Committee Joe Dougherty
Marshall Sean Ragan Sentinel Ron Haley
Past President Ray FitzGereld
www.aohmeck2.org
"Níor bhris focal maith fiacail riamh."
Translation: "A good word never broke a tooth."
President’s Message
St. Brendan the Navigator Pray for Us St. Patrick Pray for Us
Erin go Baugh Brothers,
Here we are, the month of St. Patrick, a busy month for our Division. It’s time to proudly display our
heritage. If you haven’t been able to participate in or volunteer to help at our events or activities in the
past, this is the perfect time to make that extra effort. Keep alert to our e-mails, website and information in this Newsletter to see how you can help.
As we approach St. Patrick’s Day, be alert to stores, kiosks, vendors promoting or selling merchandise
that defames or disparages the Irish heritage. Typical are t-shirts depicting the Irish as drunkards and the like. Don’t hesitate to complain either in person or in writing to the vendor or the establishment’s
management that you find this offensive and politely ask them to discontinue displaying or selling the items.
Our big day will be Saturday, March 7th when we’ll be hosting our Fifth Annual Hibernian Dinner & Show celebrating St. Patrick. The event will be at the Msgr. Kerin Parish Center at St. Mark. We have
great entertainment lined up and, like last year, there will be a ceili plus a sing along plus several other surprises. We need a strong turnout from our members, their families and friends to ensure the
success of the event. In the event that your wife can’t make it to the dinner, consider buying a ticket and try to join us anyway. We always need help during the evening selling 50-50 tickets, helping at the
bar and coordinating the servers, etc. and especially help with the clean-up.
The price this year is the same as last year, $25 and a special price for children 12 years of age and
under ($15). We’ll need help around 3pm in the afternoon to set up the parish hall.
This year we will be having a silent auction with several quality items with the biggest item being four
(4) tickets to the University of Virginia /Norte Dame football game in Charlottesville, VA. I know that this item will bring in several large bids and hope to have a credit card machine available so you can
put your bid on a credit card.
On Saturday March 14th, we’ll join other Hibernians from the Sons of Erin and South Carolina in marching in the annual Charlotte St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Brothers should wear khaki slacks and green shirts (Division shirts would be preferable, long or short sleeve). Families are invited and
encouraged to march with our group. We’ll begin the day with a 9am Mass for the Hibernians at St. Peter’s Church on North Tryon St. in Charlotte. What better way to start the day than with a Mass in
honor of St. Patrick. The parade route is usually around a mile, so you don’t have to be an Olympian to trek the streets of Charlotte. After the march, be sure to visit the Charlotte Goes Green Street Festival,
where there will be plenty of food, entertainment and merchandise. Stop by the Sons of Erin AOH division’s booth, where they sell the best corn beef sandwiches around.
On the Feast Day of St. Patrick, Tuesday, March 17th, we’ll be celebrating our annual AOH St. Patrick’s
Day Mass at Old St. Joseph’s Church in Mt. Holly (2139 Mountain Island Highway/NC 273, at the intersection of Sandy Ford Rd.). The Mass will begin at 10:00 am and we will be joined by our Brother
Hibernians from Charlotte and the Ladies AOH Ladies of the Lough Division. Before the Mass we will have a blessing of the grave of the church’s founder and first pastor, Fr. T. J.Cronin, a native of County
Cork. Be aware that there are no restroom facilities at the church. St. Joseph’s is the oldest standing
Catholic Church in North Carolina and is an historical site. Since the parish is inactive, the Mass of St. Patrick is one of the two or three Masses celebrated there throughout the year. After the Mass we will be
heading over to the Family Restaurant in Stanley, a local establishment for food and refreshments. This Mass and the gathering afterwards are open to members and guests.
Balloting is now open for you to nominate a Division Brother for the Hibernian of the Year award. We
will present the award at our Anniversary Dinner (April 30th), at Jeffries in Mooresville, in a private room upstairs, which will celebrate the sixth anniversary of our Division’s founding. At this dinner we will
also have the formal installation of the 2015 officers.
Time flies when you’re having fun!
Our March business meeting will be on March 10th at Holy Spirit PAC center in Denver.
The March social will be a St Patrick’s Day celebration at Brian Fay’s Cork and Cask on March 17, 2015 at 6:30 PM. Many of us have been there before.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t remind you that we are now in the season of Lent. Try to increase you spirituality during this period. One example is to participate in the 40 Days for Life peaceful witness at
a local abortion mill, where we pray for a change of heart and for the end of abortion. Your parish bulletin will provide you with opportunities.
St. Brendan the Navigator, pray for us!
Dick Seymour
"Statue outside the Cobh Heritage Center, which is dedicated to the history of Irish emigration."
HAVE YOU GOT YOUR TICKETS YET?
St. Brendan the Navigator AOH Proudly Presents
Our 2015 Hibernian Dinner & Show
St. Patrick Celebration
When: Saturday, March 7, 2015
6:30pm to 10:00pm
Where: St. Mark Catholic Church
Msgr. Kerin Family Center
14740 Stumptown Road
Huntersville, NC 28078
Musician/Ventriloquist BRIAN TIERNAN’s dynamic guitar/banjo playing traditional lively, family-friendly, sing-a-
long, songs followed by a set with the RINCE NA H’EIREANN School of Traditional Irish Step Dancers. Tis a grand
time you’ll be having when you join us at this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Celebration.
“When I stated to explain everything to this fellow he didn’t seem to have a clue what I was talking about. ‘What shirts do
you mean?’ he asked, etc. I said ‘you may not see them there because I have them all in the trunk of my car but you'll see
them on March 18 when I return them!’”
Westley said that he is unconcerned about Walmart changing its return policy in light of the publicity his campaign has
received.
“They can't do it retroactively, they have the 90-day return policy printed on their receipts and on signs above the
customer service desk,” he said. “The shorts have not been worn and the tags will be on them when I bring them back.”
Still, he added, “my wife keeps looking at me saying you're on the hook for $400 dollars if they don’t.”
"A pretty view of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin." "Doolin Village, County Clair."
News from Ireland
Aer Lingus slashes transatlantic fares and adds extra flights
Aer Lingus announced a new transatlantic sale that will see will see one-way flights between Ireland and North America starting from $649.
Round trip rates from North America start from:
New York to Shannon: $699 New York to Dublin: $719 Boston to Dublin: $799 Chicago to Dublin: $899 San Francisco to Dublin: $1,099 Toronto to Dublin: $649
Sale fares apply for travel between April 13 and June 15, 2015 and must be booked before 7:00pm ET on March 3, 2015.
The Aer Lingus flights are still considerably more expensive than the $350 return flights announced by Icelandic airline WOW in early February. Beginning in October, WOW Air will fly from Boston and Washington DC to Dublin, although these initial prices are the airline’s lead-in rate and will include a two-hour stop-over in Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik.
Aer Lingus also announced the addition of new flights on the Chicago route that will see Aer Lingus operate up to ten flights a week between Dublin and Chicago during November and December. The twice-daily flights will add a further 13,000 seats to the route over Thanksgiving and Christmas following strong demand for seats during this period in 2014. Last year was massive for transatlantic travel with an increase of 14% in the number of passengers arriving in Dublin from North America. That growth thrend is expected to continue in 2015. Data from the period November 2014 through January 2015 show that the number of passengers traveling on Aer Lingus' north Atlantic routes rose by 9.1% compared to the same period in 2013/14. This summer there will be 158 weekly departures from Dublin Airport to North America.
Further additions to Aer Lingus’s transatlantic model this year will include additional flights from Dublin to San Francisco, Orlando and New York as well as the establishment of a new service to Washington-Dulles. These additional flights will represent an 18% expansion in the airline’s long-haul capacity this summer.
The airline will also introduce its new business model across its transatlantic fleet next month. Lie-flat seats, 16-inch HD screens and "on-demand" dining will all be introduced in the business class seats of direct flights to North America.
The sale announcement comes as Aer Lingus is the subject of a takeover bid from IAG.