Dublin's All-Ireland winning football manager Jim Gavin and broadcaster and social activist Dil Wickremasinghe are among the recipients of the Lord Mayor's Awards 2014.
Three individuals and three organisations were presented with awards by Lord Mayor of Dublin Oisín Quinn at a ceremony in the Mansion House this evening.
Since 1989, the annual award ceremony has honoured individuals and groups who have made a special contribution to Dublin.
Presenter of Newstalk's Global Village Ms Wickremasinghe is the first recipient of the Frederick Douglass Award for outstanding contribution to civic life in Dublin by an immigrant. The new civic honour commemorates the African-American anti-slavery campaigner who visited Ireland in 1845 and wrote of how he was treated as an equal.
Mr Gavin guided the Dublin Under 21 footballers to three All-Ireland Championships, and in 2013 the Dublin Senior Footballers to both National Football League and All-Ireland Championship success.
The third individual recipient Paddy Cosgrave is the co-creator and organiser of the Dublin Web Summit, Europe's largest technology event. He is a former United Nations e-leader for Information and Communications Technology and Youth and has appeared at number 23 on Wired Magazine's list of 100 most important people in technology.
The organisations honoured are St Andrew’s Resource Centre, a community centre which had served the community of Dublin’s South Inner City for 40 years, the One Young World Bid Committee, which succeeded in attracting the Youth Summit to Dublin next October, and the Ranelagh Arts Festival.
* This article was amended on February 5th, 2014 to correct a factual error. Mr Cosgrave is no longer a UN e-leader.
