CHARLOTTE — Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, but more than ever this year as the St. Patrick’s Day Parade returned to Charlotte.
Saturday’s festivities were the first held since the pandemic, and thousands of people came out to celebrate everything Irish.
Students from St. Patrick, St. Ann and Our Lady of the Assumption schools, plus members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Knights of Columbus, Irish dancers, pipe and drum bands, alumni from Belmont Abbey College and other Catholic entities took part.
— Photos by Mike FitzGerald, Liz Chandler and Lucy Bustos
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