Coach Don Kent has devoted his life to Catholic education and spreading his Irish faith.

Detective Brian Curley has been a member of NYPD for 18 years, and has served the last 10 years in the Organized Crime Control Bureau.

Gerard Fitzgerald, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York, is honored to receive an award named after one of the city’s greatest heroes, Captain Timothy M. Stackpole.

Edward O’Callaghan, a partner in the New York Office of the international law firm of Clifford Chance LLP, is receiving the St. Thomas More Award.

Brooklyn native Frank Schorn, a founder and vice chair of the Emerald Isle Immigration Center, is receiving the Paul O’Dwyer Memorial Award.

The oldest of eight children born to Irish immigrants, Senator Martin J. Golden (R,C) is a retired New York City police officer who represents Brooklyn’s 22nd Senate District.

Mary Hogan, a member of the Brooklyn Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians for over 25 years, is currently the LAOH national organizer, president of Div. 6 in Greenpoint, and the LAOH Kings County missions and charity officer.

Bronx-born Michael Gibbons is past president of the Ireland-U.S. Council for Commerce and Industry, has been a director of the American Ireland Fund and served as chairman of the international center in NYC, a not-for-profit center that welcomes and assists new immigrants and refugees.