New life has been breathed into this Victorian Portobello home thanks to a revamp that’s full of personality
New life has been breathed into this Victorian Portobello home thanks to a revamp that’s...

Megan Burns

This rustic four-bedroom home in Westport is on the market for €449,000
This rustic four-bedroom home in Westport is on the market for €449,000

Sarah Finnan

My Career: Archivist at Guinness Eibhlin Colgan
My Career: Archivist at Guinness Eibhlin Colgan

Sarah Finnan

Irish visual artist Ciara O’Connor on using embroidery to explore women’s lives
Irish visual artist Ciara O’Connor on using embroidery to explore women’s lives

Nathalie Marquez Courtney

How an interior stylist turned this period Cork apartment into a quietly luxurious home
How an interior stylist turned this period Cork apartment into a quietly luxurious home

IMAGE Interiors & Living

This picturesque, split-level home in Delgany is on the market for €995,000
This picturesque, split-level home in Delgany is on the market for €995,000

Sarah Finnan

March 28: Today’s top stories in 60 seconds
March 28: Today’s top stories in 60 seconds

Sarah Gill

Real Weddings: Keelin and Darren tie the knot overlooking Dingle Bay
Real Weddings: Keelin and Darren tie the knot overlooking Dingle Bay

Shayna Sappington

Let me tell you why a mother is the perfect employee
Let me tell you why a mother is the perfect employee

Dominique McMullan

I broke up with my boyfriend and now I have bangs
I broke up with my boyfriend and now I have bangs

Edaein OConnell

Image / Editorial

Mary Finan announced as the IMAGE Lifetime Achievement Award Winner 2015


By IMAGE
22nd Oct 2015

no repro fee if IMAGE Businesswoman of the Year Awards mentioned in caption Pictured: Mary Finan, the former Chair of the RTE Authority and one of the founding partners of Wilson Hartnell Public Relations, this year's recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2015 IMAGE Businesswoman of the Year Awards. The ceremony will take place on Monday, November 2, 2015 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel (Burlington Road, Dublin 4). -photo Kieran Harnett

Mary Finan announced as the IMAGE Lifetime Achievement Award Winner 2015
We are delighted to announce that Mary Finan, the former Chair of the RTE Authority and one of the?founding partners of Wilson Hartnell Public Relations,?is to receive?the?Lifetime Achievement Award?at the 2015 IMAGE Businesswoman of the Year Awards ceremony, taking place on Monday, November 2, 2015 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel (Burlington Road, Dublin 4).

Selected by the editors and directors of Image Publications, this is the second year that the prestigious?Lifetime Achievement Award?will be presented; in 2014 the honour was awarded to Breege O’Donoghue, Group Director of Primark.

Mary Finan has spent her celebrated and extensive career working in communications. She is the former chair of the RTE Authority and one of the founding partners at Wilson Hartnell Public Relations, Ogilvy’s Irish public relations operation, and subsequently its chairman from 2003 to 2007. Since then she has been an independent non-executive director of a number of financial services companies and became the first female President of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce in 1996. In recent years, Mary Finan returned to Harvard to complete the Advanced Leadership Fellowship Programme for the calendar year 2012. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Law Degree by the National University of Ireland in 2011.

no repro fee if IMAGE Businesswoman of the Year Awards mentioned in caption Pictured: Managing Director of Image Publications, Clodagh Edwards with Mary Finan, the former Chair of the RTE Authority and one of the founding partners of Wilson Hartnell Public Relations, this year's recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2015 IMAGE Businesswoman of the Year Awards. The ceremony will take place on Monday, November 2, 2015 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel (Burlington Road, Dublin 4). -photo Kieran Harnett
CEO of Image Publications, Clodagh Edwards with Mary Finan, the former Chair of the RTE Authority and one of the founding partners of Wilson Hartnell Public Relations, this year’s recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2015 IMAGE Businesswoman of the Year.

 

Clodagh Edwards, CEO, Image Publications: ?In all that she has achieved throughout her ongoing career, Mary Finan is a pioneer. She has never contemplated any form of glass ceiling in her ascent up the corporate and communictions ladder and is an inspiration to all women in business. At Image Publications, we’ve had a longstanding admiration for Mary, so we are delighted that she will accept the Lifetime Achievement Award on November 2.??The award will be presented to Mary Finan by Ann Reihill, director at Image Publications.

The ninth IMAGE Businesswoman of the Year Awards, in association with Samsung, No7, Electric Ireland and Kuehne + Nagel, and supported by Enterprise Ireland, Marks & Spencer, Independent.ie and Newstalk, will celebrate Irish women in nine categories, along with the overall IMAGE Businesswoman of the Year award. The 2015 shortlist can be viewed here:?tinyurl.com/n9q3mmx

BWOTY BANNER