Spokane's St. Patrick marches a one-man parade in honor of a hero

In the summer of 2018, Tom Keefe rode through downtown Dublin, Ireland atop a tourist bus dressed in his full St. Patrick regalia to applause.

This St. Patrick’s Day, Keefe, a Spokane lawyer, started a one-man parade from O’Doherty’s Irish Grille to Shawn O’Donnell’s pub, crowned with a green Guinness brand papal-style headdress.

As Keefe strolled through downtown Spokane and across the Monroe Street bridge to O’Donnell’s Wednesday, he stopped to chat with a few passersby. Normally, he would be one in a parade of many.

The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick announced the decision to cancel the 2021 St. Patrick’s Day parade in February because of the COVID-19

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