Irish leaders and friends came together for a festive dinner dance to install the 2019 Queens County St. Patrick’s Day Parade honorees at Antun’s Restaurant in Queens Village. Sashes were distributed to the men and women who will lead the line of march this weekend.

This year’s honorees include Grand Marshal Thomas A. Callahan; Honorary Grand Marshals Catherine T. Hogan and John Norbury; Gael of the Year Kieran O’Hanlon; and Deputy Grand Marshals James Morton, Michael Moran, Wil Hurley, Patrick Cullen, Donald Morrish, Lynda Collins, Joseph Caruana and Father Thomas Basquel, C.S.Sp., who ministers at St. Camillus-St. Virgilius, Rockaway Park, pictured below.