A Kilkenny native’s made the shortlist for the Image Mother Awards.
The event aims to celebrate “People who have stepped in, shown up and kept showing up. People who have carried families through illness, grief and enormous change. People who have quietly made somebody else’s life possible.”
Cathy Mungovan Wheatley from our local city who has often spoken on KCLR about surrogacy is among those nominated in the Courage category.
She told The KCLR Daily that the nomination alone means so much;
Full Shortlist
The Mother Award
Anita Nolan
Annmarie Sliney
Rebecca Meehan
Catherine O Grady
Ciara Roberts Jones
Margaret Donovan
Bridget Connolly
Martina Collins Shanahan
Deirdre Manton
Josephine Wallace
The Father Award
Sean Coyne
Patrick Mulligan
Enda Aughey
David Carroll
John Fay
Seán Nolan
The Care Award
Katie Healy Nolan
Darina Slowey
Angie Keating
Aimee Kelly
Carragh Cole
Jennifer Dooley
Noreen Healy
Community Champion Award
Ger Kenny
Joanne Monks
Anaïs O’Donovan
Mike Smith & Paul Smith
Eilish O’Reilly
Aoife MacNeill
Lucy O’Driscoll Edge
Karla Dragic
The Grandparent Award
Rosita Sweetman
Carmel Kealy
William Brady
Josie Flood
Lena Fay
Mary Whelan
Tom (Thomas) Sliney
The Changemaker Award
Laura Guckian
Aisling Byrne
Rhona Cullinan
Evelyn Byrne
Aolish Gormley
Lisa Ann Wilkinson
Amy De Bhrún
Sarah Kiely
The Courage Award
Rachel Mooney Lacey
Cathy Mungovan Wheatley
Tracey Corbett Lynch
Lucia O’Farrell
Melody Chinenyanga
Catriona Kinnevey
Janice Casey Bracken
