Public service, through volunteer work and public advocacy, have always been important Mr. Brennan. He will continue with that committment to service as a member of Doylestown Borough Council.

This past fall, Mr. Brennan spent much of free time walking through Doylestown speaking with his neighbors about the issues important to them in the hopes of becoming a member of Doylestown Borough Council.

He was successful in his November election and was elected by a margin of 457 to 357. Today he will be sworn in for a four (4) year term as a member of Doylestown Council. The meeting will be at 7:00 pm at Doylestown Borough Hall at 57 West Court Street, Doylestown, PA 18901.

Mr. Brennan will serve as Chairman of the Zoning & Planning Committee and also as a member of the Public Works & Administration and Finance & Pension Committees. It will be his first elected office.

Interesting, his mother was also elected for the first time to public office on the same day and will be sworn in today as well as a member of Borough Council in Saint Clair, Pennsylvania.

Mr. Brennan noted, “I am excited to get to work, this is unique place to call home and I hope to continue the progress the borough has made. Public service, through volunteer work and public advocacy, has always been important to me; I absolutely appreciate the support I have received and this opportunity to serve. I appreciate your confidence and hope to make you proud.” He also joked, “after a decade as a municipal solicitor, sometimes through long meetings giving only advice, I am also excited to finally have a vote.”

Mr. Brennan is a graduate of Ursinus College, where he received his Bachelor of Arts with a double major and a double minor. He then graduated from Widener University School of Law, where he received a certification in law and government and graduated cum laude. He also studied international law at Trinity College in Ireland and Charles University in the Czech Republic.

He has been a municipal solicitor for over a decade, having been involved in nearly all aspects of local government. He has his own law firm that handles a number of different fields of practice. He was selected to the 2012 through 2016 Rising Stars list by Pennsylvania Super Lawyers® and has was featured in Philadelphia magazine. In 2015 he was named to the “Top One Percent” of Attorneys by the National Association of Distinguished Council. He was recently appointed as a Senior Hearing Panel Member for the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

He volunteers for a number of charitable, legal, political, religious and community organizations and has served as an Adjunct Professor of politics.

For several years Tim Brennan has assisted cultural, religious and police nonprofit clients, free of charge, today was a big day for one of them. He noted that little things and community support are critical to make these efforts successful; quite a bit of both went into this project, which hopefully will serve the public for many years to come.

The Lehigh Valley’s first LGBT community center has found a new home on West Maple Street in Allentown.

The Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center Executive Director Adrian Shanker announces the new location of the center Wednesday. (Courtesy photo)
The Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Centerhas bought a 13,000-square-foot building at 522 W. Maple Street in the city, according to a news release. The center closed on the property Monday, paying $340,000 for the building.

When the center opens in early 2016, it will be the first of its kind in the region to serve the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

The nonprofit had planned to redevelop a long-vacant former dairy building at 1021 W. Turner St. in the city. But significant environmental problems made the estimated $1.5 million to $1.7 million construction costs too high.

“This property presents a better option for our community – the physical space is better, the cost is lower and we’ll be able to open sooner,” Executive Director Adrian Shanker said in a news release.

The new location doesn’t require major work, he said. The former dairy building would have been under construction for up to a year once the money was raised.”This is a more responsible financial move,” Shanker said.

The center will provide services to members of the LGBT community, “including cultural, educational and health promotion programs,” the group reports. The programs and services provided will be available to all Lehigh Valley residents, not just those who live in Allentown.

“The growing LGBT community brings with it a greater need for community resources, infrastructure and direct services,” said Shanker. “We need a community center to provide the programs and services our community deserves.”

Allentown has the third-highest LGBT population among Pennsylvania cities, according to the 2010 census, behind only Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

Over 10 years, Allentown saw a 55 percent rise in the number of same-sex couples calling the Queen City home, Bethlehem saw a 79 percent increase and Easton saw a 26 percent rise, according to the census.

The building is named for Pennsylvania Diversity Network founders Liz Bradburyand and Patricia Sullivan, who were married in Connecticut in 2009.

People’s First Federal Credit Union provided financing for the project, which Jeff Barber, of Lehigh Financial Group, said speaks to the centers strong management and organization.

“Non-profit financing is among the hardest to get done, nationally, so when you can get financing for an organization like this, it really speaks to the strength of that organization,” Barber said. “People’s First did something not many lenders do for non-profits, but Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center is a very thorough organization.”

Many people in the Lehigh Valley community provided pro-bono assistance to the project. Realtor Rob Ritter, of Weichert Realtors in Allentown, is donating a portion of his commission from the sale. Others include attorneys Tim Brennan and Michael Recchiuti, Kohn Engineering, Barry Isett & Associates, Brown Design Corps., J&P Engineers and Lock Ridge Engineering, Shanker said.

Timothy P. Brennan has been named a Senior Member of the Hearing Committee for Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. This is part of the administrative body responsible for enforcing attorney ethical duties.

Timothy P. Brennan has been named an Senior Member of the Hearing Committee for the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. The Disciplinary Board is an independent agency created in 1972 under the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s jurisdiction to enforce ethical rules imposed on attorneys practicing in Pennsylvania. Experienced members have increased responsibilities regarding the management of disciplinary matters before the hearing committees.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is the exclusive body which regulated the conduct of attorneys in Pennsylvania. The Disciplinary Board assists the Court in its duties to ensure that attorneys abide by rules of conduct. The Disciplinary Board plays a major role in safeguarding the integrity of the legal system.

Hearing Committee Members are lawyers who are appointed to three-year terms and can be reappointed once. They serve on a voluntary, unpaid basis. Each of the four districts in Pennsylvania has Hearing Committees composed of three-member panels. The Committees hear cases and review files concerning attorneys located within that district.

The appointment is effective July 1, 2015 and allows Mr. Brennan to chair hearing committees.

For the eighth year, Tim Brennan, headed back to the Coal Region to serve as the bartender for a very good cause at the Friend’s of St. Kieran’s Annual Heritage Day in Heckscherville, PA. This builds on the pro bono work Mr. Brennan has done for the Friends of St. Kieran’s, a non profit religious organization seeking to preserve the history of the Irish Valley.

For the eighth year, Tim Brennan, headed back to the Coal Region to serve as the bartender for a very good cause at the Friend’s of St. Kieran’s Annual Heritage Day. Each year Mr. Brennan goes back to act in the famous Irish play, “Finnegan’s Wake,” where he is the bartender in the play that recounts the humorous deeds and misdeeds of Tim Finnegan, a working man who fell from a ladder only to wake up at his own funeral. Mr. Brennan has been a student of Irish history and studied in Ireland, at Trinity College, while attending law school.

The Irish Valley has great significance to Tim because his great, great, great grandfather, John D. Brennan, was laid to rest in the parish cemetery at St. Kieran’s Church in 1888, only a few hundred yards from the stage he now performs on. The elder Brennan was a well known mine engineer who worked with John Siney, the famous labor leader who formed the Workers Benevolent Association, in the 1870’s to intercede in and resolve a number of labor disputes between President Gowen, of Reading Anthercite, and the local miners.

After the St. Kieran’s Church was closed by the Diocese of Allentown, Mr. Brennan began helping several residents of the Valley and local Ancient order of Hibernian (AOH) members to preserve the church on a pro bono basis. Mr. Brennan helped the group form the Friends of St. Kieran’s, a non profit religious organization seeking to preserve the history of the Irish Valley and to tell the unique and compelling story of Irish immigration, heritage and culture.

The area is indeed historic and worthy of preservation, the church was built by the hands of local miners, many of whom spoke Irish as their first language, in 1858 and was christened by St. John Neumann. It is said that the Saint learned Gaelic just to minister to local coal miners.

The National Board of the AOH in America recognizes the site as an icon in the history of the Order. The AOH, which is a national Irish religious fraternal organization has its roots in the Irish Valley. Members from the area went to the NY parade in 1836, partly to discuss discrimation and violence against Catholics and the clergy by the Know Nothing Party. Within a few months the AOH was born to protect the faith, the church and the culture of the Irish. Conceivably, some of those with AOH grave markers or those without such markers buried in St. Kieran’s cemetery could have been the actual founders of the AOH who went to NY in 1836 for the NY parade

 

Timothy P. Brennan has recently been named an Experienced Member of the Hearing Committee for Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Timothy P. Brennan has been named an Experienced Member of the Hearing Committee for the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. The Disciplinary Board is an independent agency created in 1972 under the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s jurisdiction to enforce ethical rules imposed on attorneys practicing in Pennsylvania. Experienced members have increased responsibilities regarding the management of disciplinary matters before the hearing committees.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is the exclusive body which regulated the conduct of attorneys in Pennsylvania. The Disciplinary Board assists the Court in its duties to ensure that attorneys abide by rules of conduct. The Disciplinary Board plays a major role in safeguarding the integrity of the legal system.

Hearing Committee Members are lawyers who are appointed to three-year terms and can be reappointed once. They serve on a voluntary, unpaid basis. Each of the four districts in Pennsylvania has Hearing Committees composed of three-member panels. The Committees hear cases and review files concerning attorneys located within that district.

Timothy P. Brennan, who previously represented New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers star wideout Plaxico Burress, was a panelist at the 2012 Athletes & Agents Conference held in conjunction with the 2012 National Bowl Game.

Timothy P. Brennan, who previously represented New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers star wideout Plaxico Burress, was a panelist at the 2012 Athletes & Agents Conference held in conjunction with the 2012 National Bowl Game.The conference at Lehigh Valley’s Steel Stacks PBS 39 assembled a panel of sports professionals, agents and attorneys to provide commentary and answer questions regarding selecting an agent, going professional, professional training, combines, and challenges facing professional athletes.

The annual National Bowl Game showcases the talent of Division II and III athletes. Only the best College All American and All Conference Seniors are invited to play alongside standout Pro players. College coaches and Pro coaches coached both teams while Pro scouts viewed from the sideline.

Timothy P. Brennan to serve profession as a Hearing Committee Member of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Timothy P. Brennan has been appointed to serve as a Hearing Committee Member for the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. The Disciplinary Board is an independent agency created in 1972 under the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s jurisdiction to enforce ethical rules imposed on attorneys practicing in Pennsylvania.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is the exclusive body which regulated the conduct of attorneys in Pennsylvania. The Disciplinary Board assists the Court in its duties to ensure that attorneys abide by rules of conduct. The Disciplinary Board plays a major role in safeguarding the integrity of the legal system.

Hearing Committee Members are lawyers who are appointed to three-year terms and can be reappointed once. They serve on a voluntary, unpaid basis. Each of the four districts in Pennsylvania has Hearing Committees composed of three-member panels. The Committees hear cases and review files concerning attorneys located within that district.

Tim Brennan volunteered to be taken into custody for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. He was a Top 10 Fundraisers in the Valley. Thank you to all those who got us out!

MDA is the nonprofit health agency dedicated to curing muscular dystrophy, ALS and related diseases by funding worldwide research. The Association also provides comprehensive health care and support services, advocacy and education.MDA combats neuromuscular diseases through programs of worldwide research, comprehensive medical and support services, and far-reaching professional and public health education. With national headquarters in Tucson, MDA has more than 200 offices across the country, sponsors some 200 hospital-affiliated clinics and supports more than 330 research projects around the world.

MDA supports more research on neuromuscular diseases than any other private-sector organization in the world. MDA scientists are in the forefront of gene therapy research and have uncovered the genetic defects responsible for several forms of muscular dystrophy, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease), childhood spinal muscular atrophy and several other neuromuscular conditions.

The Association’s comprehensive services program includes diagnostic and follow-up medical consultations, flu shots, support groups, MDA summer camps for youngsters, a medical equipment program, assistance with equipment repairs and resource referral.

Through its national advocacy program, MDA works to make life better for people with muscular dystrophy and related muscle diseases by providing representation in matters of public policy and research advancement, nationally and internationally; and facilitating active involvement in these areas by the people it serves.

MDA was created in 1950 by a group of adults with muscular dystrophy, parents of children with muscular dystrophy and a physician-scientist studying the disorder. Since its earliest days, it has been energized by its number-one volunteer and national chairman, entertainer Jerry Lewis.

For the fourth year, our own Tim Brennan, will be heading back to the Coal Region to serve as the bartender for a very good cause at the 23rd Annual Irish Weekend in Heckscherville, PA. This builds on the pro bono work Mr. Brennan has done for the Friends of St. Kieran’s, a non profit religious organization seeking to preserve the history of the Irish Valley.

PRESS RELEASE
July 13, 2010

For the fourth year, our own Tim Brennan, will be heading back to the Coal Region to serve as the bartender  for a very good cause at the 23rd Annual Irish Weekend in Heckscherville, PA.  Each year Mr. Brennan goes back to act in the famous Irish play, “Finnegan’s Wake,” where he is the bartender in the play that recounts the humorous deeds and misdeeds of Tim Finnegan, a working man who fell from a ladder only to wake up at his own funeral. Mr. Brennan has been a student of Irish history and studied in Ireland, at Trinity College, while attending law school.

The Irish Valley has great significance to Tim because his great, great, great grandfather, John D. Brennan, was laid to rest in the parish cemetery at St. Kieran’s Church in 1888, only a few hundred yards from the stage he now performs on. The elder Brennan was a well known mine engineer who worked with John Siney, the famous labor leader who formed the Workers Benevolent Association, in the 1870’s to intercede in and resolve a number of labor disputes between President Gowen, of Reading Anthercite, and the local miners.

After the St. Kieran’s Church was closed by the Diocese of Allentown, Mr. Brennan began helping several residents of the Valley and local Ancient order of Hibernian (AOH) members to preserve the church on a pro bono basis. Mr. Brennan helped the group form the Friends of St. Kieran’s, a non profit religious organization seeking to preserve the history of the Irish Valley and to tell the unique and compelling story of Irish Immigration, heritage and culture.

The area is indeed historic and worthy of preservation, the church was built by the hands of local miners,  many of whom spoke Irish as their first language, in 1858 and was christened by St. John Neumann. It is said that the Saint learned Gaelic just to minister to local coal miners.

The National Board of the AOH in America recognizes the site as an icon in the history of the Order. The AOH, which is a national Irish religious fraternal organization has its roots in the Irish Valley. Members from the area went to the NY parade in 1836, partly to discuss discrimation and violence against Catholics and the clergy by the Know Nothing Party. Within a few months the AOH was born to protect the faith, the church and the culture of the Irish. Conceivably, some of those with AOH grave markers or those without such markers buried in St. Kieran’s cemetery could have been the actual founders of the AOH who went to NY in 1836 for the NY parade.

Please go out and support this fine group, there is entertainment form Friday, July 23rd to Sunday July 25th. The schedule of entertainment is listed below. Mr. Brennan will be performing in the Wake at 6pm on Saturday, July 24th.

The Clover’s 23rd Annual Irish Weekend
Heckscherville
8 Clover Road, Pottsville, PA 17901
FRIDAY, July 23
5:00 to 7:00  THE TROUBLES
7:00 to 10:00  THE IRISH BALLADEERS
8:00 THE McCORMICK SCHOOL OF IRISH DANCE

SATURDAY, July 24
2:00 CHARLIE ZAHM & TAD MARKS
5:15 THE McCORMICK SCHOOL OF IRISH DANCE
6:00  FINNEGANS WAKE
7:00 to 10 KILMAINE SAINTS

SUNDAY, JULY 25
7-11 AM BUFFET BREAKFAST AT THE CLOVER HALL
11:30 AOH/LAOH MARCH TO MASS
12:00 IRISH MASS
1:00 THE MARTIN FAMILY BAND
4:00 THE IRISH LADS

In addition:
The Breaker Boys
Campa na bhFiann   Irish Encampment, hands on demonstrations
Tom Dempsey, Local Genealogist and a Family Message Board
Historian Rich will discuss Irish Valley and area history
the Molly Maguire connection; the Civil War Riots

FINNEGAN’S WAKE LYRICS

Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin’ Street
A gentleman, Irish, mighty odd;
He had a brogue both rich and sweet
And to rise in the world he carried a hod.
Now Tim had a sort of the tipplin’ way
     With a love of the whiskey he was born
     And to help him on with his work each day
     He’d a “drop of the cray-thur” every  morn.

Whack fol the darn O, dance to your partner
     Whirl the floor, your trotters shake;
     Wasn’t it the truth I told you
     Lots of fun at Finnegan’s wake!

Whack fol the darn O, dance to your partner
     Whirl the floor, your trotters shake;
     Wasn’t it the truth I told you
     Lots of fun at Finnegan’s wake!
One mornin’ Tim was feelin’ full
His head was heavy which made him shake;
He fell from the ladder and broke his skull
And they carried him home his corpse to wake.
     They rolled him up in a nice clean sheet
     And laid him out upon the bed,
     A gallon of whiskey at his feet
     And a barrel of porter at his head.

Whack fol the darn O, dance to your partner
     Whirl the floor, your trotters shake;
     Wasn’t it the truth I told you
     Lots of fun at Finnegan’s wake!

His friends assembled at the wake
And Mrs. Finnegan called for lunch,
First they brought in tay and cake
Then pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch.
     Biddy O’Brien began to bawl
“Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see?
     “O Tim, mavourneen, why did you die?”
     Arragh, hold your gob said Paddy McGhee!

Whack fol the darn O, dance to your partner
     Whirl the floor, your trotters shake;
     Wasn’t it the truth I told you
     Lots of fun at Finnegan’s wake!

Then Maggie O’Connor took up the job
“O Biddy,” says she, “You’re wrong, I’m sure”
Biddy she gave her a belt in the gob
And left her sprawlin’ on the floor.
     And then the war did soon engage
     ‘Twas woman to woman and man to man,
     Shillelagh law was all the rage
     And a row and a ruction soon began.

Whack fol the darn O, dance to your partner
     Whirl the floor, your trotters shake;
     Wasn’t it the truth I told you
     Lots of fun at Finnegan’s wake!

Then Mickey Maloney ducked his head
When a noggin of whiskey flew at him,
It missed, and falling on the bed
The liquor scattered over Tim!
     The corpse revives! See how he raises!
     Timothy rising from the bed,
     Says,”Whirl your whiskey around like blazes
     Thanum an Dhul! Do you thunk I’m dead?”

An Allentown Democrat whose nominating petitions were questioned will stay on the ballot, a state Commonwealth Court judge ruled Thursday. “The long and short of it is that [the challengers] had a whole bunch of people who had assumptions, but not facts,” Horton’s lawyer, Timothy Brennan, said.

An Allentown Democrat whose nominating petitions were questioned will stay on the ballot, a state Commonwealth Court judge ruled Thursday.

Senior Judge Barry F. Feudale ruled that candidate Mike Horton, who’s running against Rep. Karen Beyer, R-Lehigh, in the 131st District, lives at a home in Allentown and not at his fiancee’s home in Emmaus, as two local Democrats who filed the challenge had claimed.

“The long and short of it is that [the challengers] had a whole bunch of people who had assumptions, but not facts,” Horton’s lawyer, Timothy Brennan, said.

The people who filed the challenge, Ernest Kaiser and Janet B. Keim, have 10 days to file an appeal to Feudale’s ruling. Their contention was that Horton lives outside the district.

“I think the judge has set a dangerous precedent where anyone can set up a fictitious address, keep his toothbrush and his car there, and run for office,” Beyer said.
No decision has been made on whether to appeal.

Beyer, we should note, faces a GOP primary challenge from a fellow named Justin Simmons.