So this really great thing happened last night Friday 20th November – I won the ‘Arts & Culture’ category of the ’32nd Tallaght Person of the Year Awards – 2015′ (the longest running non-profit community awards of its kind in Europe), which was held at the Red Cow Complex in Dublin. I was and am really honoured to have been nominated and to win this award and also very humbled by the many other wonderful nominees doing excellent work in the local community. It means a great deal to me that somebody thinks what I do means something to them and the community and I am very grateful. The whole event was very special, the energy at the event was something else and I think everyone enjoyed a brilliant evening so well done to the organisers and everyone that was involved in making it happen.
The annual Tallaght Person of the Year Awards are organised by the voluntary group Tallaght Community Council. The categories included in the awards are Arts & Culture, Business, Community, Environment, Heart of Gold, Sport, Special Needs & Carers and Youth. All 115 nominees for the various categories were anonymously nominated and the winners selected by an independent panel of judges.Congratulations to the new Tallaght Person of the Year 2015 Philip Preston and to all to the nominees and category winners!
Congrats well done
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Thank you!
Well done!!!!
Thanks a million Margot!
Delighted for you, Michael, very well done!
Thanks Susan, hopefully will be you at some stage too!
Congratulations Michael. Well deserved
Tomas, my name will be on the cup just below yours, I was very happy to see you there!
Well done Mike – I am delighted for you.
Regards
Finnbar
Thanks Finnbar!
Well done Michael, richly deserved. You have opened a beacon light on the life experience of Irish Peace keepers that for too long their work was kept in the dark and not spoken about or referenced. Long before Ireland had a Dept of Foreign affairs or indeed a Jack’s Army The Irish Defence force sent peace keepers around the world and raised the colours proudly on many war torn land bring peace protection and security to many people. Their work is mentioned in military terms but your poetry delves into the realities they experience and the emotional soul searching involved by many in Peace keeping work. Well done
Mervyn.
Mervynn, thanks for writing this!
Great news, Michael…congrats and well done. Martin.
Thanks Martin, another step forward!
Michael, well done and much deserved. Congrats. Wonderful. 🙂
Hi Jane, thanks a mill, was a great event!
I can imagine and well deserved, hope you sank a few Guinness’s 🙂
No drinking….only driving
Michael, Well done that’s great news! Declan
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Thanks Declan!
Congratulations. Nicole and Owen
Thanks guys!
Congratulations
Antoin
Thank you Antoin
Michael, I am really thrilled for you. Congrats.
Trish
Thanks Trish!
well done and well deserved