The Ireland-US Council recently held a luncheon meeting in
New York to present its Annual Student Scholarships. The guest speaker at the event was Len O’Hagan, chairman of the Belfast Harbour Commissioners, who described the positive economic outlook for in his address. Council president Michael J Gibbons, presenting the scholarship awards at The River Club in
Manhattan , said: "The council’s Scholarship Awards programme provides opportunities to student undergraduates from universities in the Republic and in to travel to the and to work temporarily in American corporations. It provides project-oriented, meaningful work assignments in US business corporations of all sizes that are directly linked to the academic disciplines which the undergraduates are pursuing in ."
Council president Michael J Gibbons, Kevin Mooney, a business and legal student from UCD, Council member John Luebs, Mutual of America
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DJ Carey, Attracta Lyndon and Michael McGouran
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Eugene Roddy, Council board member and president of Fox Television, Dennis Swanson, David O’Sullivan, executive director of the Ireland-US Council
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News Corp colleagues Veracelle Vega, Ian Moore and Patricia Swedin (News Corporation are sponsoring a Council scholar this year)
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The Dean of Students at Fordham University, Dr John Kezel, with Lisa Murray from Invest Northern Ireland’s office in Boston who sponsored the lunch
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Tom Ryan, chairman and CEO of Ryan International Corporation, with Len O’Hagan, chairman of the Belfast Harbour Commissioners
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