St Pats Bfeas: Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, left, looked on as Senator Linda Dorcena Forry spoke at last year’s South Boston St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast. Photo by Don West

In direct contrast to last year’s events, South Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade is causing more consternation than the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast.

Twelve months ago, the breakfast earned national headlines as state Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry made history as the first woman and the first person of color to host the traditionally white, Irish, and male-led event. This year, the breakfast, minus the pre-sitdown commotion, is on track and the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center is ready with the eggs and corned beef hash that will be served along with a hearty roast of the region’s political community.

“We are in high-level negotiations with the Irish government around whether Councillor Linehan will be allowed to come over for the breakfast,” Dorcena Forry said this week. Last year, City Council President Linehan skipped the breakfast to travel to Ireland after a failed attempt to assume hosting duties as the councillor representing South Boston.

New England Cable News will broadcast the breakfast beginning at 9 a.m. with an hour of green carpet coverage, followed by presentation of the proceedings from 10 a.m. to 12:30. For tickets to the breakfast and more information, visit firstsuffolkpartnership.org.

NECN will also broadcast the parade, which will begin after the breakfast at 1 p.m. This year’s route has been altered to accommodate Southie’s snow-clogged streets and the more than 105 inches of snow that fell on the city this winter. Volunteers have been working to clear roadways of snow banks ahead of the parade, which will begin at the Broadway T station, march northeast up Broadway, and finish at Farragut Road.

In December, the South Boston Allied War Veterans Council, which puts on the parade each year, voted to allow the LGBT veterans group OUTVETS to march – a first in the parade’s history. As such, many elected officials who, like Dorcena Forry, boycotted the parade last year because of the ban on LGBT groups will march in this year’s much-shorter event.

For more information on the parade visit southbostonparade.org.