Cultural Nominees


BREDA Drumgoole

Breda has spent a number of years, involved in the Irish community. Not least of all, she has been Treasurer of the GIFCC in Sydney. She has spent considerable time giving back, while juggling her own personal commitments.

Geraldine Buttle

Geraldine ran two corporate volunteering programs with the Irish Australian Senior Community to record their Life Story. She organised a total of approx. 20 volunteers from Salesforce to spend 5 x 4 hour mornings with a group of about 5 seniors to document their childhood, teenage years, young adulthood, emigrating to Australia, adult life in Australia, and recent history stories. She then worked to get the stories printed as books for the seniors to keep and share with their families. It was hugely rewarding for the seniors while they walked back down memory lane, and for the volunteers, themselves more recent immigrants who longed for these stories of home, while missing their own families greatly. And she organised this program twice, with approx. 10 seniors involved in total.

JOHN COSTELLO

John is an Irish musician in Sydney. He’s incredibly proud of his roots from Co. Mayo and fosters Irish culture through playing the guitar and signing - including a great selection of Irish songs. He’s performed on stage at St Patrick’s Day in The Rocks this year, at Coogee Markets in aid of Darkness Into Light, multiple Sydney Irish rugby club events - which he’s also part off and many more Irish pubs and events through Sydney. He’s always happy to collaborate with other Irish musicians. He’s an incredible example of Irishness and Irish culture alongside having a huge heart and charity involvement.

Danny Deehan

Danny keeps Irish sing along going in lidcombe. Great supporter of Irish music scene and supporter of GAA.