This article first appeared on Galway Bay FM

Atlantic Technological University has announced its first-ever Alumni awards

Seven graduates will be recognised at the university’s Spring Conferring Ceremonies

The conferring ceremonies will take place next week across ATU campuses in Galway, Donegal and Sligo

The Alumni recipients are:

Design, Education & Humanities: Author Pat McArt former Editor, Derry Journal

Engineering & Computing Alumni: Dr Shane Loughlin, Founder and President, ESE Academy

Business: Enda Mc Guane, Head of Asset Management, Land Development Agency

There are three receipients of the Science and Health award: Breege Conroy Walsh, founder & Managing Director of BWC MedTech Consulting and former VP at Medtronic; Evelyn O’Toole, Founder & CEO, Complete Laboratory Solutions and Lisa Lynch, Senior Manager R&D, Boston Scientific

Finally President Dr. Orla Flynn’s Alumni Award will go to Lauren Cadden, record-breaking Irish Sprinter and Paris 2024 Olympian