Patrick O'Brien

Profession and company: Retired from West View Water Authority.

How do you celebrate your Irishness? Travelling to Ireland with friends and family and visiting friends there. Truly like taking first time travelers to Ireland. 24-year member of The Pittsburgh St. Patrick’s Parade Committee, past chairman, current parade coordinator. Very involved with The Ancient Order of Hibernians, 27-year member, Past PA President, Past Allegheny Division 4, President. Enjoy Music at our Irish Pubs. Director in The Irish Society for Education and Charity and I’m also a member of The Irish American Unity Conference.

Name a hero you admire and why? My heroes are our US Military and Police Officers that keep our country safe. Many of my family are veterans that I admire and respect for their service to our country. 

Something people would be surprised to know about me... If it weren’t for my wife’s objections, I would move us into an off-grid cabin in the woods.

Biography: Son of Bill and Marion O’Brien. Married 43 years to The Love of My Life, Lynne McKelvey O’Brien. Proud Father of Bridget, Brendan, Sean and Corey. Happy Pappy to Aria, Hadley, Emmett, Brooks, Philip and Clara.


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