Heffernan walks tall as he heads up Cork parade

He may have been too small to see the parade as a child but Olympic medal winner Rob Heffernan was walking tall as he led the St Patrick’s Day parade through his native city. And it was a special day, too, for two Cork-born, US-based firefighters, brothers Brian and Mike Dorgan, who marched alongside members of Cork City Fire Brigade, as their proud mother, Marie, watched from the viewing stand.

Mike, a firefighter with 91 Engine in Harlem, has retired from the New York fire department. Brian is a firefighter with Station 49 in San Francisco fire department.