Welcome to the Gaisce Gold Community!

“The Gaisce Gold community stretches far and wide, with thousands of Gold Awardees now located all around the world. ”

Upon achieving your Gold Award, you are part of a global Gaisce Awardee Community.  

Gaisce – The President’s Award’s aim is to develop a lifelong relationship with our incredible Awardees by providing opportunities to support present and potential Gaisce participants, sharing your Gaisce Award stories (and adventures!), and connecting you across years and generations. 

We want to maintain the important connection with you, and hundreds more people who share a set of unique experiences from the Gaisce Award which have shaped who they are today – people who still to this day are committed to their communities, lead active lifestyles, and care for the wellbeing of others – as well as the environment – around them.  

Get Started

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External Link: Gaisce Gold Awardees Survey

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Want to share more?

If you’d like to go beyond the survey and share your memories and experience working towards your Gold Award, the personal development gained from taking part in Gaisce, celebrating your award at the ceremony and what led from there – send an email to community@gaisce.ie.

(Please include your name and the year you completed your award)

The Gold Awardee Community 

Gold Awardees, regardless of when they achieved their Award, tend to continue their passion for positive leadership through their career, but also have a desire to mentor those coming after them – the next community change makers, adventurers, musicians, sports people and creatives. 

Building a living archive ahead of Gaisce Award’s 40th Anniversary 

We’re asking everyone who has earned a Gold Award to contact Gaisce today so their unique story can be recorded as part of a special collection and living archive of Gold Awardees from nearly 40 years of the President’s Award. 

Our aim is not just to receive (GDPR compliant!) contact details and information from generations of Awardees, but to build out the community and provide opportunities where possible for networking, voluntary support and to shape our message to the thousands of new participants every year undertaking a Gaisce. 

Every story from a Gold Awardee is unique and important – why you undertook and committed to the challenges, the challenges you set for yourself, and how you took what you learned forward into your personal lives and career(s) since. 

Our Gold Gaisce Awardees  

This section is currently being filled out and with your help we’ll be able to add more years that is beyond our accessible data.

Áine Fealy,
Our Lady’s Secondary School		 Ciara Cunningham,
St Anne’s Secondary School		 Ian Coleman Horgan,
Killorglin Community College		 Michael Macken,
Roscommon Integrated Development Company
Aislinn Kelly-Lyth,
Holy Child Secondary School – Killiney		 Cillian Kavanagh,
University of Limerick		 James Ladd,
Ballyhoura Macra na Feirme		 Michelle McLaughlin,
St Anne’s Secondary School
Alisha O’Donnell,
Volunteer Centre – Louth		 Conor Butler,
KARE- Newbridge		 James O’Shaughnessy,
Munster Technological University		 Nicki Bond,
Wesley College
Alison Egan,
Legend Lodgers Foróige Club		 Conor Farrell,
University College Dublin		 Jason Sherlock,
NUI Galway		 Nicole Landy,
TU Dublin – Bolton Street
Amy Molloy,
Alexandra College		 Conor Gannon,
St Patrick’s College		 Jen Gillen,
Barrowline Watersports Club		 Norma O’Leary,
University College Cork
Andrew Gilcreest,
St Patrick’s College		 Emma Hurley,
Ballyhoura Macra na Feirme		 Joshua Hall,
Royal School Cavan		 Odhran Whelehan,
NUI Galway
Aoife Nolan,
Mary Immaculate College SU		 Erin Buick,
St Louis Grammar School		 Kathleen Coleman,
St Attracta’s Community School		 Orla Masterson,
NUI Galway
Aqsa Khalid,
Muslim Sisters of Éire		 Erin Shimizu,
NUI Galway		 Kim Lister Martin,
Mullingar Resource Centre		 Pamela Harding,
Borrisokane Community College
Arnaud Farel,
Gaisce – The President’s Award		 Evelyn Jacinta Fox,
Ballyhoura Macra na Feirme		 Kirsty Moran,
NUI Galway		 Sam Lynch,
University College Cork
Billy Hedigan,
Ballyhoura Macra na Feirme		 Faye Murphy,
Dublin Institute of Technology		 Laura Kenny,
Ballyhoura Macra na Feirme		 Samuel Lynch,
Belvedere College
Brian O’Driscoll,
Ballyhoura Macra na Feirme		 Grace Marie O’Sullivan White,
Ballyhoura Macra na Feirme		 Leo Micklem,
Wesley College		 Sarah Ryan-Purcell,
Scoil Mhuire – Cork City
Caoimhe Newell,
Music Matters		 Grainne Ní Dhuinnin ,
Ballyhoura Macra na Feirme		 Marie Kinane,
St Anne’s Secondary School		 Tommy Holohan,
University College Cork
Caroline O’Keeffe,
Ballyhoura Macra na Feirme		 Hugh McDonagh,
St Jarlaths College		 Mark O’Keeffe,
KARE- Newbridge		 Tristram Alexander Ryan,
Trinity College Dublin
Charles McCarthy,
Ballyhoura Macra na Feirme		 Hugh Ward,
Kinsale Community School		 Mary McDonnell,
Galway Volunteer Centre

Aideen Bergin, Cashel Community School Deirbhile Fitzgerald, Loreto Secondary School – Clonmel Katie O’Hara, St Catherine’s College Orla Leahy, Scoil Mhuire Gan Smal – Blarney
Aine Glynn, Pobal Scoil Neasain Eilis McLaughlin, St Catherine’s College Kevin Bushe, Bray Emmets GAA Club Peter Menzies, Trinity College Dublin
Áine McAteer, Loreto Community School – Milford Ella McGeary, St Catherine’s College Lauren Victor, Killorglin Community College Rachel Casey, Loreto Secondary School – Bray
Aislinn McAleenan, St Louis Grammar School Emer McAtamney, St Louis Grammar School Lisa Kelly, Colaiste Bride – Clondalkin Rachel Hastings, Convent of Mercy Secondary School
Aislinn Stewart, St Louis Grammar School Emmet McClorey, EA Southern Holding Centre Luke McMahon, Old Bawn Community School Rachel Murray, St Mary’s Secondary School
Alanna Roche, Colaiste Bride – Clondalkin Eva Mallon, St Catherine’s College Maeve O’Hagan, St Catherine’s College Rachel Rice , Loreto Secondary School – Bray
Anam Rizwan, University College Dublin Evan Dargan Hayes, St Gerard’s School Mark Hartery , Ardscoil na Mara Raissa Smyth, Tullow Community School
Aoife Curran, St Catherine’s College Evanna Woodside, St Louis Grammar School Mark Woulfe, Coláiste Eoin – Blackrock Richard Creighton, St Jarlaths College
Aoife McAllister, St Louis Grammar School Eve O’Neill, St Catherine’s College Matthew Stewart, St Louis Grammar School Rory McAllister, St Louis Grammar School
Aonraoi Mullen, Portumna Community School Feargal McKey, St Catherine’s College Meabh Cairns, St Catherine’s College Ross O’Connor, National Learning Network
Ashling Nesbitt, Trinity College Dublin Fodla Hagan-Fontes, St Catherine’s College Megan McShane, St Catherine’s College Ruth Fenton, KARE – Newbridge
Beth French, St Catherine’s College Hannah McCann, St Catherine’s College Miriam Hastings, Youthreach – Pleasants Street Ruth Moore, University College Dublin
Bronagh McHugh, St Louis Grammar School Hazel Murray, Scouting Ireland Miriam Keegan, Laois Volunteer Centre Samantha Gallagher, Loreto Community School – Milford
Caitlin Butler, St Louis Grammar School Hugh Patrick Tunney, Clongowes Wood College Molly Brady, St Louis Grammar School Sara Gartside, St Louis Grammar School
Caitriona Boyd, St Peter’s College Jack Bogue, St Mary’s Diocesan School Natasha Meyers, Killorglin Community College Seanán O’Brien, Scoil Mhuire Gan Smal – Blarney
Caitriona Doyle, Ballynahinch Open Award Centre Jack Donnelly, St Louis Grammar School Nathan Sheehan, St Joseph’s Foundation Shauna Segondat , Coláiste Mhuire – Buttevant
Catherine Mohan, NUI Galway James McKeown, St Louis Grammar School Nell Carr, University College Dublin Sinéad Reidy, Crescent College Comprehensive SJ
Christine Gibson, St Aidan’s Community School Jane Byrne, St Mary’s Holy Faith Niamh Haughian, St Catherine’s College Síofra Collins O’Regan, University College Dublin
Ciara McDaid, NUI Galway Jason Nolan, Trinity College Dublin Niamh Toal, St Catherine’s College Stephanie Traynor, St Louis Grammar School
Ciara Shannon, St Louis Grammar School Jordayna Magill, St Louis Grammar School Niveta Ramakrish, Irish Red Cross – Muff Susan Higgins, CBS –  Middleton
Ciaran Higgins, St Joseph’s Foundation Kathy Seale, National Learning Network Odhran Devlin, St Louis Grammar School  
Conor Stewart, St Louis Grammar School Katie Mulholland, St Catherine’s College Orla Fitzgerald, EA South Eastern Holding Centre  

Aaron Campbell
Armagh Open Award Centre		 Cian Lynch
Killorglin Community College		 Jaison Hellstrom
CBS The Green – Tralee		 Niamh Doyle
Ballynahinch Open Award Centre
Ailbhe Keenan
1st Omagh Explorer Scouts		 Ciara O’Brien
Loreto Secondary School – Bray		 Jamie Murray
Doras Training Cork – Cope		 Niamh McPhillips
St. Louis Secondary School
Ailis Ward
Irish Girl Guides		 Ciaran Costelloe
Gaisce Alumni Network – B King		 Jenny Earley
Trinity College Dublin		 Oisín Butler
Pobail Scoil Neasain
Aine Cassidy
Newry Open Award Centre		 Conor Pursun
Pobail Scoil Neasain		 Jessica McClean
Royal & Prior Comprehensive School		 Oisín Gannon
Ballinrobe Family Resource Centre
Aisling Rath
St Catherine’s College		 David Hurley
Scouting Ireland		 John Joseph Devaney
St. Louis Community School, Kiltimagh		 Paul Cunningham
St Colman’s College
Alan O’Riordan
Doras Training Cork – Cope		 Dónal Brennan
Killorglin Community College		 Joseph Bergin
Pobail Scoil Neasain		 Rebecca Duffy
Carrick-on-Shannon Community School
Alice Slattery
Tess Training Centre		 Donal O’Shea
Doras Training Cork – Cope		 Joseph Hegarty
Doras Training Cork – Cope		 Richard Dunphy
CBS – Carrick
Amy Begley
Doras Training Cork – Cope		 Edel Bradfield
Ballyhoura Macra Club		 Julie Reddan
Borrisokane Community College		 Roseanne Delaney
Mary Immaculate College Student’s Union
Amy Kelly
Institute of Education – D2		 Eilis Doyle
Ballynahinch Open Award Centre		 Katie Boyle
Newry Open Award Centre		 Sadhbh Keenan
1st Omagh Explorer Scouts
Amy Sexton
University College Cork		 Eilis O Hare
St Catherine’s College		 Laura Philpott
Scoil Mhuire – Cork City		 Saoirse Fitzgerald
Killorglin Community College
Andrew Cosgrove
Scouting Ireland		 Eimear McMahon
St Oliver Plunkett Youth Club		 Lorcan Tuohy – Donnelly
Borrisokane Community College		 Sarah Hayes
Loreto Secondary School – Clonmel
Aoibheann McConville
St Oliver Plunkett Youth Club		 Eimear Quinn
Dublin City University		 Louise Bourke
Dominican College/Sion Hill		 Sarah McEvoy
Tullamore College
Aoife Buckley
Coláiste Treasa – Kanturk		 Elaine Lucey
Colaiste na Toirbhirte		 Maeve Upton
Jesus and Mary Secondary School – Sligo		 Serena O’Dwyer
Cashel Community School
Benog Brady Bates
Doras Training Cork – Cope		 Fionnuala Hoctor
Loreto Secondary School – Clonmel		 Mairead Watters
St Oliver Plunkett Youth Club		 Sinead Watters
St Oliver Plunkett Youth Club
Brian White
Tess Training Centre		 Gavin Moriarty
Killorglin Community College		 Mark O’Sullivan
Trinity College Dublin		 Timothy McGrath
Killorglin Community College
Caitlin Smyth
Newry Open Award Centre		 Grace Lynch
Killorglin Community College		 Matthew Sexton
University College Dublin		 Yvonne Keating
Loreto Secondary School – Clonmel
Carl Ahearn
Eye Project		 Haemish Munro
Kildare Volunteer Centre		 Meadhbh Duncliffe
Scoil Mhuire – Cork City		 Zoe Daly
Bandon Grammer School
Carol Martin
Dolphin Guide Company		 Hazel Cooney
Gaisce Alumni Network – O Clare		 Megan Hamill
St Catherine’s College
Chloe Mc Guire
St. Louis Community School, Kiltimagh		 Jack Doyle
Pobal Scoil Neasain		 Molly Parmeter
Kilkenny College
Christy Benny
St Catherine’s College		 Jack Kavanagh
St. Kierans, Kilkenny		 Niamh Brown
Newry Open Award Centre

Aaron Daly DORAS Training & Employment Ciara Hennebry Waterford Institute of Technology Jamie Wyse DORAS Training & Employment Maurice Attikossie DORAS Training & Employment
Abbie Moloney Scoil Mhuire – Strokestown Ciara McCarthy Tess Training Centre Jason Moran Pobal Scoil Neasain Nathan Cafolla Athlone Institute of Technology
Ailis Wakefield Killorglin Community College Clara Frances McDonald GAN – C Sweeney Jennifer Ruffini Villiers School Olivia Porter University College Dublin
Ann Marie O’Neill Volunteer Centre – Sligo Colin Bradley GAN – P Ó Lamhna Jenny Kavanagh St Joseph’s College – Lucan Patryk Wilk KARE – Newbridge
Annie Carr Letterkenny Institute of Technology Courtney O’Mahony Crowley CBS – Midleton Karl Peyton EYE Project Peadar McCormack KARE – Newbridge
Aoibhinn Boyd St Peter’s College – Meath David Farrelly Pobal Scoil Neasain Kate Pepper Pobal Scoil Neasain Rachel Manley Pobal Scoil Neasain
Aoife Burke GAN – H McGee David Irving St Louis Community School Kerrie Ní Dhroma Coláiste Oiraill Sarah Nolan Maynooth University
Aoife Crowley St Joseph’s College – Lucan Dylan Hempenstall Clonkeen College Kevin Finn CBS Secondary School – Mitchelstown Sarah O’Donnell Scoil Chriost Ri
Aoife Donohue Loreto Secondary School – Bray Dylan White DORAS Training & Employment Lauran O’Mahoney CBS – Midleton Scott Mulligan Wesley College
Brandon Cummins DORAS Training & Employment Eimear Hayes St Joseph’s College – Lucan Liam Nolan 6th Tipperary Scouts Scott O’Hara DORAS Training & Employment
Brian O’Mahony Scouting Ireland Eleanore Lainchbury Pobail Le Cheile Lily Mahon Holy Child Secondary School – Killiney Shane Lawless Coláiste Bhaile Chláir
Carol Ahearn EYE Project Ellen Forkan St Louis Community School Lisa Moore Loreto Community School – Milford Shane McCarthy DORAS Training & Employment
Cathal Byrne EYE Project Emily Kearns Munster Technological University Lucy Barrett Pobal Scoil Neasain Sinead Horgan Killorglin Community College
Cathal Seabrook Pobal Scoil Neasain Emma McKinley Coláiste Cholmcille – Donegal Lucy McGill Trinity College Dublin Sophie Hyland Killorglin Community College
Chloe McGuire St Louis Community School Enda Francis – Devine Hamilton High School Maeve Owens DORAS Training & Employment Sorcha McElchar Letterkenny Institute of Technology
Christina Brennan Our Lady’s Secondary School Frances Dalton KARE – Newbridge Mariah Couch DORAS Training & Employment Steven Shaw EYE Project
Christopher Yeates Pobal Scoil Neasain Gillian O’Moore St Mary’s Secondary School – Dublin 13 Matthew McNulty Coláiste Chill Mhantáin  

Aaron Fallon,
Ballymun Regional Youth Resource		 Conor Crowley,
COPE Foundation		 Karen Johnston,
Crosscare – Clondalkin		 Olivia Sneyd,
A Hanley
Aaron Murphy,
National College of Ireland		 Darren Daly,
Scouting Ireland		 Khadija Bouncir,
COPE Foundation		 Pauline Frewen
Ballyhoura Macra na Feirma Club
Aisling Kelleher,
Villiers School		 Eimear Kavanagh,
COPE Foundation		 Laura Beston,
Colaiste Pobail Acla		 Robin McClean
Royal & Prior Comprehensive School
Aneesa Smith,
Loreto College – Foxrock		 Eoin MacBradaigh,
Foroige – Balyna		 Maria Incrocci,
St Laurence O’Toole Folk Group & Life Centre		 Sarah-Louise Fallon
Cashel Community School
Ann Kelly,
Our Lady’s Secondary School		 Gary Costello,
IT Sligo		 Maria Prendeville,
University College Cork		 Shane O’Shaughnessy
Tess Training Centre
Anna Lawless,
Trinity College Dublin		 Hannah Johnston,
St Kilian’s Community School		 Martina Hayes,
Munster Technological University		 Tanya Beth Rosaldo
St Mary’s Holy Faith Secondary School
Aoibhinn Moyne,
Coláiste Ailigh		 Jack Cowhig,
Midleton College		 Naomi Carroll,
Order of Malta – Killeen		 Tara Rogers
John The Baptist Community School
Carla Wickham,
St Mary’s Secondary School – Dublin 13		 Jeremy Murphy,
COPE Foundation		 Natalie Martin,
PACT Project		 Thomas Brooks
Midleton College
Ciara Sneyd,
A Hanley		 Jessica O’Brien,
COPE Foundation		 Niamh Teeling,
Trinity College Dublin		 Tracy Prendergast
COPE Foundation

Ali Khan University College Cork Elizabeth Ryan Cashel Community School Joseph Keogh Tess Training Centre Niamh Nic an Bhaird M Dublin
Ann Kingsbury DORAS Training & Employment Eoin O’Halloran 1st Bagenalstown Baden-Powell Scouts Kate Kelly University College Cork Orla O’Connor Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí
Blade Rose Tess Training Centre Erin Moran 5th Kildare – Athy Scouts Laoise Sutton Maynooth University Rachel O’Connor Santa Sabina Dominican College
Chloe Sheehan S Dublin Fiona Colton Tess Training Centre Liam Nielsen Scouting Ireland Richard Chawke Tess Training Centre
Clinton Rose Tess Training Centre Gareth Jones St Peter’s College – Wexford Louise Whittle M Dublin Ruby Hardy-Brown DORAS Training & Employment
Clodagh Nic Ghiolla Rua St Mary’s College – Naas Gavin O’Flynn DORAS Training & Employment Mary Theresa Glendon Loreto Secondary School – Clonmel Samantha Duggan KARE – Newbridge
Daniel Connolly DORAS Training & Employment Graeme Kelly KARE – Newbridge Matthew Murphy DORAS Training & Employment Stephanie Morris M Cavan
Daniel Quinn Gaisce – The President’s Award Jessica Kidd 1st Bagenalstown Baden-Powell Scouts Michelle Butler The Institute of Education Steve O’Connor Tess Training Centre
Danielle O’Sullivan Scouting Ireland Johanna Murray Cashel Community School Nathan Mannion St Jarlath’s College Thomas Bruton M Dublin
Deirdre Dunne C Carty Jonathan Moran Trinity College Dublin

Áine Byrne
Mary Immaculate College Student’s Union		 Ciaran Wyse
Scoil Mhuire Community School		 Jack Pearson
Letterkenny Institute of Technology		 Liam Quigley
Cashel Community School
Brendan Dowling
Scoil Mhuire Community School		 Conor Nolan
Portmarnock Unit – Scouting Ireland		 James Healy
COPE Foundation		 Margaret Tobin
CBS – Carrick
Caoilainn Bushell
Meán Scoil Mhuire – Longford Town		 David McClean
Royal & Prior Comprehensive School		 Jason Ryan
COPE Foundation		 Róisín Dunne
C Carty
Charlotte Keane
Loreto Secondary School – Clonmel		 Doireann Nic Dhonncha
St Mary’s College – Naas		 Joanne Kelly
Mary Immaculate College Student’s Union		 Suzanne O’Brien
TU Dublin
Ciara Hickey
Christ King Girls Secondary School		 Emily O’Leary
TU Dublin		 Kelvin Mulcahy
COPE Foundation		 Una Barrett
COPE Foundation
Ciara Lynch
Christ King Girls Secondary School		 Eoin Fitzgerald
Coláiste Eoin – Carlow

Aisling McDonald Christ King Girls Secondary School Ethan Preston St Muredach’s College Mark Gilligan St Declan’s College Philip Peters Bandon Grammar School
Aoife Hanrahan Loreto Secondary School – Clonmel Gordon Leonard St Kilian’s Community School Michelle King Maynooth University Robert Kelly DORAS Training & Employment
Danny Smith REHAB Day Services James Mahon REHAB Day Services Muireann Joyce Hearne Loreto Secondary School – Clonmel Sarah Kelly Order of Malta – Dublin 3
David McSweeney DORAS Training & Employment Jessica Holton-Yelverton DORAS Training & Employment Niamh Whelan Loreto Secondary School – Clonmel Shauna Higgins IT Sligo
Deirdre Allen DORAS Training & Employment John McGarvey Pobalscoil Chloich Cheann Fhaola Noel O’Brien National Learning Network – Laois Shauna O’Brien St Mary’s College – Naas
Elaine Corrigan TU Dublin Kate Michelle Geraghty Sancta Maria College – Mayo Orlaith O’Connell Munster Technological University Stephen Loftus St Muredach’s College

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