By Paddy McCarthy
It’s all happening right now as one the biggest pre–Saint Patrick’s Day celebrations will begin at Antun’s, the in place to be right here in Queens Village. I am invited and so looking forward to it as it is going to be house full again and anybody that’s everybody will be there. The New York City Saint Patrick’s Day Parade board of directors have done their job up to now and it’s getting exciting as we are all looking forward to a great evening. “The Board of Directors thanks the affiliate organizations for selecting dedicated and distinguished group of dedicated Irish Americans,” said Parade Chairman Sean Lane. “They will join our Grand Marshal, Kevin J. Conway, in leading us past St. Patrick’s Cathedral and up Fifth Avenue on Friday, March 17.
“This year we have a bishop, the leader of the NYPD’s Police Benevolent Association Union, the Nation Vice-President of sales at Heineken, USA, the New York State President of the LAOH, a Deputy Chief from the Fire Department of New York, a person who has worked with world renowned TV & movie producers and the person who has led the 69th Regiment for the past 33 years as the regimental Pipe Major. An unbelievable selection of spectacular Irish Americans!” said Hilary Beirne who introduced the Aides at the Parade delegate’s meeting on Thursday, January 5. The Aides to the Grand Marshal for the 2023 St. Patrick’s Day Parade are: Grand Council of United Emerald Societies Aide: Patrick J. Lynch, Queens County Aide: Mark Edwards, New York County Aide: Sean Claffey, Knights of St Patrick Aide: John Doolan, Suffolk County Aide: Agnes O’Leary, Nassau County Aide: John R. O’Brien, Bronx County Aide: Jack (John) McCarrick, Richmond County Aide: Michael J. Mc Keever, Westchester County Aide: Peter G. Van Slyck, United Irish Counties Aide: Rita Lydon Lenz , Aide At Large: Joe Brady, Orange County Aide: Mary Sexton Wingenter, Kings County Aide: Robert John Emmett Murphy, FDNY AIDE: Deputy Chief Paul Mannix, Rockland County Aide: Dennis Toal, Archdiocese of New York Aide: Bishop Edmund Whalen.
The 2023 Grand Marshal, Kevin J. Conway is a long time New Yorker residing on Long Island with his wife Denise and their children. Mr. Conway is very proud of his Irish Heritage tracing his multigenerational heritage to Counties Leitrim, Cork, Meath and Limerick.
Kevin Conway is the vice chairman of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC a global private equity firm that he joined in 1997. Prior to joining CD&R, he spent ten years with Goldman, Sachs & Co., as a partner. Kevin Conway is the former chair and current vice chair of the board of directors of Student Sponsor Partners, an organization providing educational opportunities to at-risk inner-city children in New York City and is a Trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
He serves on the boards of Catholic Health Services of Long Island, and the New York Catholic Foundation, which administers funds for the Archdiocese of New York in pursuit of the religious, charitable, educational, and community services activities of the Archdiocese.
Mr. Conway and his Aides will lead the approximate 200,000 marchers up Fifth Avenues in the 262nd New York City’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade on March 17. The New York City St Patrick’s Parade marched for the first time in 1762, fourteen Years before the Declaration of Independence was signed in Independence Hall, Philadelphia.
The Parade is regarded as the most popular of the all the Parades in New York City, and honors Saint Patrick – the patron Saint of the Archdiocese of New York and Ireland. The New York Parade consists only of marchers and each year hosts some 250,000 marchers and two million spectators. The Parade has many outstanding marching bands, bagpipers in marching formations, high-school and college bands from throughout the United States and from all over the world.
The occasion is televised live to millions of households nationwide for four hours by host station WNBC Channel Four. The broadcast is webcast live via the internet through the Parade’s web site at NYCStPatricksParade.Org and WNBC Channel Four web site at www.wnbc.com.
For further information about the Parade, please go to their web site at NYCStPatricksParade.Org.
Now that you have it all and in case, they might be a few tickets left, go to the website above and hopefully you might be lucky.
See you all again next week when I am Out&About again.