The Pride of Cork Awards 2025

Cork Civic Life hosted The Pride of Cork Awards 2025 on Sunday, October 19th, at the Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa, Little Island. Over 150 guests attended the event to honour 27 people and organisations in the voluntary, social, civic, charitable, and not-for-profit sector operating in all parts of Cork City and County.

Thank you to our special guests, the Lord Mayor & Lady Mayoress of Cork, the Deputy Mayor of the County of Cork, and Minister Jerry Buttimer T.D.

The Chairman of Cork Civic Life, Michael Mulcahy, said, “There are more than 3,000 voluntary, social, civic, charitable and not for profit organisations in Cork and each of them are doing incredible things for people, for our communities, and for Cork. The people that lead them, the volunteers that donate their time to them and the companies that support them are all amazing and that is why we host The Pride of Cork Awards, to honour and acknowledge these outstanding people and organisations. This year we were thrilled to honour some more fantastic people and organisations and we plan to continue doing this in the years ahead.”

The winners of the night were:

• Sr Mary Lucey
• Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust
• Hasan and Hussein Benhaffaf
• John Adams
• Garda Jamie Landers
• Le Cheile Africa
• O.N.E Cobh Branch
• Scouting Ireland
• St. Luke’s Home
• Cystic Fibrosis Ireland
• The Rainbow Club
• Dr Ann Kelleher
• The Hope Foundation
• Catriona Twomey – Cork Penny Dinners
• Conal Creedon
• Order of Malta
• Lily Hyde
• Imelda Lynch
• Coolmine South-West Services
• Barry Good
• Cork Sexual Violence Centre
• TUSLA – Mariam Banim
• The Greater Chernobyl Cause
• Christine Kavanagh
• Lorraine Hogan
• Posthumous Award – Alf McCarthy
• Posthumous Award – Phil Goodman (Douglas Young at Heart)