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Carmel Naughton, school rep Kenny Donagher, winning Sligo scholar Francis Donoghue from Summerhill College, Minister Jack Chambers TD and Martin Naughton at the 2025 Naughton Foundation Scholarship awards held at Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin. Pic: Kieran Harnett.<\/p>\n
Former Summerhill College, Sligo student, Francis Donoghue was awarded a Naughton Foundation Scholarship worth \u20ac25,000 at a ceremony in Trinity Business School, Trinity College, Dublin on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The award was presented by founding patrons of the Naughton Foundation, Dr. Martin Naughton, and his wife Carmel, who were joined by Minister Jack Chambers, to present winning students with their awards and cheques.<\/p>\n
Supporting academic and innovative excellence in Irish students, the Naughton Foundation Scholarship Awards are an investment in the future of Ireland’s reputation as a country with outstanding graduates promoting the study of engineering, science, and technology at third level.<\/p>\n
The County Sligo winner, Francis Donoghue, has accepted a place at University College Dublin studying Engineering.<\/p>\n
Since its establishment in 2008, the Foundation has presented over \u20ac8 million in scholarships to over 450 young people in publicly funded institutions across the island of Ireland. The scheme started in three counties and has continued to expand annually to become a nationwide scheme in 2016. There is one guaranteed scholarship (\u20ac25,000) for each participating county, with some counties awarded more than one scholarship and each scholarship is worth \u20ac6,000 for each year of a student\u2019s three- or four-year undergraduate degree.<\/p>\n
Francis joins 37 other exceptional Irish students who were awarded third level scholarships towards their studies in the areas of engineering, science, technology, and maths. The prize winner\u2019s former secondary school, Summerhill College, Sligo was awarded a prize of \u20ac1,000 towards its science facilities, for their support of their winning student.<\/p>\n
Speaking about the growth and development of the programme over the past seventeen years, Dr. Martin Naughton commented; \u201cBoth Carmel and I are delighted by the growth of this program and the incredible community of alumni who are doing extraordinary work in education, research and industry at home and abroad.<\/p>\n
“Today we are delighted to welcome a new cohort of wonderful young people to join this group and to support and encourage them. When we meet these young engineers, researchers, and mathematicians, I am very happy knowing that we have invested in Ireland\u2019s wealth creators and leaders of the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carmel Naughton, school rep Kenny Donagher, winning Sligo scholar Francis Donoghue from Summerhill College, Minister Jack Chambers TD…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,2259],"class_list":{"0":"post-96216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-paul-deering"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}