IrishCentral founder Niall O’Dowd to be honored with the Tip O Neill Donegal Diaspora Award

Congratulations !!

Niall, well done and deserved. I loved Tip O'Neill. He was the classic Irish pol ... in the best sense of the term. Daniel Patrick Moynihan was anotgher great Irish American public servant, as was Ted Kennedy. Kennedy was born into wealth and power but spent a lifetime in the U.S. Senate working on behalf of the middle class and the working poor. I look at congress today ... where are the giants?

Congratulations to Niall O'Dowd!!!

Niall a Chara, only a real curmudgeon would begrudge this award, so: well done!

Hi Niall, Mazel Tov on your well-deserved award.

Congratulations Niall O'Dowd!

Well done Niall. I think you were born in Castle Ave. Thurles. Your father taught me in the 50's in the Tech.in Castle Ave. Live long and be happy. Auld Bannon.

Congrats Niall,though I am of another party,I loved the way Tip &Ronald Reagan got along.Those were much more civil political days-would that we could go back to that civility!

Well-deserved Mr O'Dowd. Tip's Fullerton cousins did business with us in the good old days in County Donegal, and I was introduced to Tip in Congress, and found out the Inishowen connection. We need a Speaker and POTUS as he and Reagan were to disagree but work together.