The New York St. Patrick’s Day Parade Board of Directors and the Parade Affiliate Organizations have together announced 14 distinguished Irish Americans who will serve as Aides to Grand Marshal Kevin J. Conway for the 2023 parade.
Stated a release: "Aides to the Grand Marshal are chosen annually by the Parade’s participating organizations in recognition of their outstanding service to the Irish-American community of New York.
"The selection of an Aide is acknowledgement of years of unselfish, dedicated and distinguished service to the New York and Irish communities and for their contribution to Irish faith, culture and heritage."
“The Board of Directors thanks the affiliate organizations for selecting a 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, 2023.”
The 14 aides come from a variety of backgrounds.
“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 delegates 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. McKeever; 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.
This year's grand marshal, Kevin J. Conway, is a longtime New Yorker residing on Long Island with his wife Denise and their children.
Mr. Conway, said the parade committee release, "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, 2023."
More on the New York City parade at www.NYCStPatricksParade.Org.
