By Marita Krivda Poxon
Ryan Heenan, current President of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick describes himself as “the youngest guy in the room” when he speaks about how he often feels when he attends Friendly Sons meetings which he has been doing since he joined in 2010 at age 18. At 29 years old he is indeed one of the youngest ever presidents of that esteemed group. He follows in the footsteps of his father Joe Heenan who was president from 2016 until 2018. This father-son duo is the fourth time this has happened in the 250 year history of the Friendly Sons which was founded in 1771 before the American Revolution.
The Heenan family might even be called a clan since Joe grew up in a family of nine children, seven boys and two girls, living in Havertown which informally is called Ireland’s Thirty-third County. Ryan comes from a family of four and has legions of Heenan cousins most of whom belonged to Havertown’s Annunciation Parish. They attended local Catholic schools and many including Ryan graduated from St. Joe’s Prep.
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