ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - For the second year in a row, the annual St. Patrick's Day celebrations in Dogtown have been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dogtown United and the Ancient Order of Hibernians St. Patrick’s Parade Committee announced on Tuesday that the parade scheduled for March 17 and Dogtown Irish Festival that takes place on the same day have all been canceled.
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“Dealing with all of the unknowns of the current situation, it was impossible to plan an event of the size of the Hibernians’ Parade with this much uncertainty,” said Dennis Pogue, the current chairman of the Hibernian Parade Committee. “So we felt the best course of action was to make this decision now, and focus our efforts on our 2022 parade."
“We know that the thousands of people that look forward to coming to Dogtown every year to celebrate the Hibernian Parade will be disappointed,” Pogue said. “But we can assure them that we will be back bigger and better than ever in 2022!”
Read more here, at DogtownUnited.com.
Last year, the downtown St. Louis and Dogtown St. Patrick's Day parades were among some of the first major events postponed, then canceled due to the pandemic.
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