Great work by our members North and South. Notre Dame Division 1 held a beefsteak dinner to help a family in need in Passaic County. The division donated $1600.00 to the family of Andrew Goodell, a3 year old Hawthorne, NJ resident that was diagnosed with a childhood cancer known as Neuroblastoma to aid with the cost [...]
Bergen 32 supports Tank Pull for Wounded Warriors; Hamilton AOH Hall Home to Two Presidents; Date set to remember 9 Hibernians lost in 9/11. Bergen Division 32 competed in the 2nd annual Tank Pull Challenge for the Wounded Warrior Project in Clifton, New Jersey. The team was led by Bergen 32’s founding president, John Connelly. There [...]
NJ AOH Convention chairman Ray Barnes, ably assisted by Nick Mullaney, Kevin Weldon and John Keane planned and hosted in Belmar and Spring Lake, NJ the 2011 NJ AOH convention. The theme for the convention was “One Island, One Ireland”. The convention was opened at the Friendly Sons of the Shillelagh hall in Belmar. The [...]
NJ AOH 49th biennial Convention Scheduled On May 13th and 14th The Ancient Order of Hibernians in New Jersey will be conducting their 49th biennial convention. The theme for the convention will be One Island, One Ireland. The two day convention will be hosted by the John Cardinal O’Connor Div 32, Belmar It will [...]
AOH Divisions in New Jersey have been very active the past few months. In the early fall Bergen 32 and Monmouth 2 Divisions participated in the first annual Tank Pull Competition to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project. The Tank Pull Competition was chaired by John Hughes member of Bergen 32 Division, which had [...]
New Jersey Provides Scholarships AOH Div 10 in Trenton awarded full scholarships to five teens to attend the Colaiste Gael Linn Irish Cultural College in Donegal, Ireland. Four of the winners came from New Jersey and one from Derry. The scholarship, which memorializes Billy Briggs, a much loved Irish-American with a passion for Ireland and [...]
By Irish Echo Staff (with permission) The future relationship between New York and Belfast was studied, discussed, and outlined in some detail last week at a two day conference in Manhattan during which U.S. Economic Envoy to Northern Ireland, Declan Kelly, provided the keynote address during a luncheon hosted by the Irish Echo at the [...]
Division 10 of Mercer County, New Jersey held its third annual Gael Scoil for children on March 6 and 7 at Notre Dame High School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Most remarkable is that we sold out. Enrollment for our two day program has doubled every year for the three years it has been in existence and [...]
US Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) met with a delegation from the New Jersey AOH leadership and the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform at his Newark office for a focused discussion on immigration reform and the Irish context to that issue. The group thanked the Senator for his longstanding commitment to the Irish community throughout his [...]
