GOAL awards

GOAL and its dedicated staff have often had their efforts acknowledged:

Awards to John O'Shea include:

(1987 & 1992) People of the Year Award
(1988) Ballygowan Outstanding Achievement Award
(1990) Publicity Club of Ireland Communications Award
(1992) MIR Award
(1992) Dun Laoghaire Citizen of the Year
(1993) Association of Tennis Professionals Humanitarian of the Year Award
(1995) Texaco Outstanding Achievement Award
(2004) The Tipperary International Peace Award - Past recipients include President Bill Clinton, Senator George Mitchell, President Nelson Mandela, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, and Bob Geldof.
(2005) Ernst and Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year
(2008) Freedom of Westport
Membership of The Medical Society, University College Dublin, for humanitarian work

Honorary Doctorates:
(2007) From The Open University, for services to the poorest of the poor in the Developing World.(2008) From Notre Dame University (USA), for decades of humanitarian work.

Other GOAL recipients of awards:

Dr Mary McLoughlin:
(1997) People of the Year Award
(2006) University College Cork Medical School Medal

Ronan Scully:
(2004) Galway Young Person of the Year
(2004) Galway Mayor’s Award
(2005) Offaly Person of the Year Award

REFLECT:
(2005) UNESCO International Literacy Award
(The REFLECT programme was pioneered by GOAL in North Sudan, and is now used by over 500 organisations in more than 70 countries worldwide)