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Pictured at the NUI Galway Alumni Awards 2018 Gala Banquet were; Tralee native, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, award-winning poet receiving her Alumni Award for Gradam Alumni don Ghaeilge – urraithe ag OÉ Gaillimh from Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, President of NUI Galway. Photo: Aengus McMahon
TWO Tralee natives were among just seven people honoured at the prestigious NUI Galway 2018 Alumni Awards at the weekend.
Award-winning poet, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, originally from Oakpark, was presented with the ‘Gradam Alumni don Ghaeilge’, while Professor Declan Sugrue, originally from Tralee, Cardiologist at the Mater Hospital received the Alumni Award for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences.
The presentations took place at the 18th annual Alumni Awards Gala Banquet on Saturday, in the Bailey Allen Hall located in Áras na Mac Léinn on campus. The awards were due to take place on March 3 but were deferred due to the cold spell of weather.
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Pictured at the NUI Galway Alumni Awards 2018 Gala Banquet were, (centre) Kerry native, Professor Declan Sugrue, Cardiologist at the Mater Hospital, who recevied an Alumni Award for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences from Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, President of NUI Galway (right) and Professor Peter McHugh, Dean of the College of Engineering and Informatics, NUI Galway (left). The award was sponsored by Medtronic. Photos: Aengus McMahon
The Alumni Awards recognise individual excellence and achievements among the University’s more than 90,000 graduates worldwide.
The Awards programme boasts an impressive roll call of over 100 outstanding graduates who have gone on to honour their alma mater, including, for example, President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins; Olympian, Olive Loughnane; Rugby great, Ciarán FitzGerald; RTÉ broadcaster, Sean O’Rourke; former Attorney General, Máire Whelan; former Creganna CEO, Helen Ryan, Tony Award-winning actress, Marie Mullen and writer, Mike McCormack.
