Press Release
Monday 25th May 2015
Bray & District Chamber announces 2015 Endeavour Awards winners
- 2015 Bray Endeavour Awards, sponsored by Commscope and The Royal Hotel and Merrill Leisure Club
- Niall Benson named Person of the Year
- Joe Duggan named Lifetime Achievement Award winner
- Special Chamber Recognition Award for Ciaran McGetigan
- 15 Awards presented by Bray Chamber to Bray’s commercial, civic, cultural, and community heroes
- 180 attend Gala Awards ceremony at The Royal Hotel
Niall Benson has been named Bray Person of the Year at the 2015 Bray Endeavour Awards, presented by Bray & District Chamber and sponsored by Commscope and Royal Hotel and Merrill Leisure Club. The Awards were presented last Friday night, 22nd May 2015) at a gala awards ceremony in front of an audience of 180 guests at The Royal Hotel, Bray.
Awards Chairperson Phyl Farrelly commented: “We were extremely proud tonight to be honoring our local heroes here in Bray. We enjoyed an exciting as well as emotional night –we celebrated the achievements of our award winners and many members of our local community who joined us, as well as the winners’ friends and families, for this special celebration. We are absolutely delighted with the success of this year’s awards and in particular with the superb reaction which each of our winners received, especially our Person of the Year Niall Benson and Lifetime Achievement recipient Joe Duggan and every single one of our award winners tonight. These Awards are unique in that all recipients are nominated by the people of Bray, making the annual Endeavour Awards the premier public accolade that our community can bestow upon that great band of heroes that we have in our town. There is no doubt this year’s winners are some of the most remarkable achievers in our community.”
This year Bray Chamber received a large ever number of nominations for this year’s Endeavour Awards. The nominations from across the community were made following a public awareness campaign, during which the people of Bray were invited to nominate their civic, cultural, community and commercial heroes. A total of 15 awards were presented at the 2015 Bray Chamber Endeavour Awards.
Person of the Year – Niall Benson
Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient – Joe Duggan
Sports Achievement of the Year Award – Bray Emmetts
Civic & Community Affairs Award – John Ivory
Culture & The Arts Award – Bray One Act Drama Festival