Trócaire worker wins award for overseas work

YOUNG, vibrant, enthusiastic and rarin’ to go.

That was Sally O’Neill at the tail-end of the 1970s. These days, she is older, wiser but remains as compassionate and as committed to her work for the aid agency Trócaire as she has been for three decades and more.

That is why she is this year’s recipient of the Hugh O’Flaherty International Humanitarian Award, dedicated to honour those who exemplify the kind of courage shown by Irishman, the Vatican Pimpernel who, in wartime Rome, outfoxed the Nazi occupiers and saved the lives of thousands.