Donovan wins Cork Person of the Year award

AN 85-year-old educator and actor scooped a surprise award yesterday beating off the challenge of bookies’ favourites Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Derval O’Rourke to become Cork Person of the Year.

More than 300 guests, including Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, attended the annual awards ceremony at the Fota Island Sheraton Hotel, to witness Dan Donovan getting accolades for his lifetime contribution to the theatre and education.

Mr Donovan, from Turners Cross in Cork city, was former vice-principal at Presentation College Cork and is known and admired as an actor, producer and director in theatre, since he co-founded the Southern Theatre Group with the late James N Healy in 1959.