The McCourts take the lead
Dennis Duggan
Former Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dennis Duggan joined Newsday
The Brothers McCourt aren't big on parades and especially
on the biggest and oldest of them all, the daylong St. Patrick's Day Parade up
Fifth Avenue. "Angela's Ashes" author Frank McCourt once dismissed the grand
march, saying that "if you threw a bomb at this ghastly assemblage, you would
wipe out the cream of Irish mediocrity."
So why then, have the McCourts...
