Alumni of the Year Awards

The annual Alumni awards recognise the remarkable achievements of notable graduates in their personal or professional lives.

For more about the 2023 awardees, click here.

All recipients were presented with their awards at the 2022 annual MIC Alumni of the Year Awards Ceremony which took place at the Lime Tree Theatre on MIC’s Limerick campus.

For more about the 2022 awardees, click here.

The recipients were presented with their awards at the 2019 annual MIC Alumni of the Year Awards Ceremony which took place at the Lime Tree Theatre on MIC’s Limerick campus.

The three graduates of MIC were recipients of the MIC Alumni of the Year Award 2018 - an award presented to those who have made an outstanding contribution in their field of endeavour.

For more about the 2018 awardees, click here.

A graduate of MIC, Dr Naughton is a former Chairman of the Board of Cooperation Ireland. Together with her husband, Martin Naughton (founder of Glen Dimplex Ireland) Carmel has been a constant advocate for the advancement of educational opportunities, particularly in the arts, as well as in the disciplines of science, engineering and mathematics where the couple have actively promoted excellence in technological studies at higher level in Ireland through the Naughton Foundation, which they established in 1994. In 2016, the Community Foundation for Ireland named the couple National Philanthropists of the Year for their work in the Naughton Foundation.

This ceremony saw over 100 students and graduates from MIC being recognised for their academic and other notable achievements with over €100,000 presented in scholarships and bursaries, further enhancing the recipient’s studies at MIC.

Here are a few you may have heard of;

• Pat McDonagh (businessman & founder of Supermacs)
• Dr Carmel Naughton (philanthropist)
• Jacqui Hurley (radio & television sports broadcaster)
• Éamonn Meehan (former Executive Director of Trócaire)
• Róisín Meaney (bestselling author)
• Dáithí Ó Sé (broadcaster)
• Patrick O'Donovan (Minister for Further & Higher Education, Research, Innovation & Science)
• Petula Martyn (reporter & broadcaster)
• Jim Daly (politician)
• Micheál Lehane (reporter & broadcaster)
• Priscilla Lynch (Clinical Editor at the Medical Independent)
• Máirín Quill (politician)
• Alphonsus Cullinan (Bishop of Waterford & Lismore)
• Páidí Ó Lionáird (columnist, broadcaster & now Bhainisteoir Cumarsáide, Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga)
• Dara Ó Cinnéide (former Kerry footballer & radio broadcaster)
• Stephen Ryan (music)
• Tommy Bulfin (television commissioning editor)
• Tony Killeen (politician)
• Tomás Ó Sé (former Kerry footballer & broadcaster/newspaper columnist)
• Eimear O'Mahony (producer/director) 
• Hildegarde Naughton (politician)
• Mary O’Neill (Ambassador of Ireland to Tanzania)
• Cian McCormack (broadcaster)
• Cathal Crowe (politician)
• David Quinn MBE (humanitarian)

The College has a strong sporting tradition and is extremely proud to have had countless inter-county GAA players study here, as well as prominent names in rugby (Ciara Griffin), hockey (Róisín Upton) and other disciplines. These include members of Limerick's 2021 All Ireland winning hurling team: Aaron Gillane, Cian Lynch, Declan Hannon, Darragh O'Donovan, Richie English and David Reidy as well as: John Conlon, Colm Galvin and Róisín Looney (Clare GAA); Caoimhe Costelloe (Limerick GAA); Brendan Maher, Ronan Maher, Niall O’Meara, Séamus Kennedy and Julieanne Bourke (Tipperary GAA); Tim O’Mahony, Linda Collins and Orla Finn (Cork GAA); Conor Cooney (Galway GAA); Aoife Murray (Waterford GAA); Róisín Egan (Offaly GAA) and many more.