The parade, the 35th annual, is organized by the Greenwich Hibernian Association and will take place on Sunday, March 22, in the Connecticut town.
Dougherty is an active member of a number of Irish-American organizations. He is currently president of The Wild Geese, the cultural organization based in Fairfield County, and is vice-president of the Greenwich Hibernian Association.
In addition, he is a member of the Irish American Cultural Institute, the Irish Genealogical Society, International, the Donegal Historical Society and the O’Dochartaigh Clann Association.
Dougherty is, additionally, a founding director of the Irish American Museum of Washington, D.C., Inc., a newly formed organization with a goal of building an Irish-American Museum in the nation’s capital.
The parade steps off at 2 p.m. and will proceed up Route 1 and then down Greenwich Avenue.