Atlantic Technological University Announces Recipients of First-Ever Alumni Awards

April 24, 2025

Atlantic Technological University announces the recipients of its inaugural Alumni Awards, celebrating graduates who have demonstrated outstanding leadership, innovation, and positive impact in their professions and communities.

Atlantic Technological University (ATU) announces the recipients of its inaugural Alumni Awards, celebrating graduates who have demonstrated outstanding leadership, innovation, and positive impact in their professions and communities.

These awards are an opportunity for the university to honour alumni whose exceptional skills, leadership, and impact have inspired our students, staff, and wider community. Alumni Awards are presented to alumni who have made outstanding contributions in the following areas aligned to our faculties:

• Business

• Design, Education & Humanities

• Engineering & Computing

• Science & Health

Seven graduates will be recognised at the university’s Spring Conferring Ceremonies, taking place next week across ATU campuses in Donegal, Sligo and Galway.

The 2025 ATU Alumni Award recipients are:

Breege Conroy Walsh, Founder & Managing Director, BWC MedTech Consulting and Former VP of Global Quality Engineering and Services at Medtronic Inc. – Alumni Award in Science & Health

Dr Shane Loughlin, Founder and President, ESE Academy – Alumni Award in Engineering & Computing

Enda Mc Guane, Head of Asset Management, Land Development Agency – Alumni Award in Business

Evelyn O’Toole, Founder & CEO, Complete Laboratory Solutions (CLS) – Alumni Award in Science & Health

Lauren Cadden, Record-breaking Irish Sprinter and Paris 2024 Olympian – President’s Alumni Award

Lisa Lynch, Senior Manager R&D, Boston Scientific – Alumni Award in Science & Health

Pat McArt, Journalist, Author, Former Editor, Derry Journal – Alumni Award in Design, Education & Humanities

Dr Orla Flynn, President of ATU, said, “These outstanding alumni represent the very best of Atlantic Technological University. Their achievements are a source of immense pride for our university community, and they inspire our current students to dream bigger and reach higher. These are our very first Alumni Awards, and we look forward to celebrating many more incredible graduates in the years to come.”

The Alumni Awards will be presented to the recipients during ATU’s Spring Conferring Ceremonies, held across the university’s campuses on the 29 April (Letterkenny) 30 April (Sligo) and 01 May (Galway City). These events will bring together the ATU community, along with families and friends, to celebrate both the graduating students and the outstanding achievements of our alumni awardees.

For further information, contact:

ATU Communications Manager

Aidan Haughey

Tel: 086 086 6913

Email: aidan.haughey@atu.ie or communications@atu.ie

Website: www.atu.ie