[caption id="attachment_68203" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Noel Kilkenny, Ireland's Consul General in New York, council president Dennis D. Swanson, president, Fox Television Stations Group, honoree Kieran McGowan and Diarmuid Hogan, council vice president and president of Global Excess Partners who served as dinner chairman and who introduced the honoree at the sold-out event. The Sam Maguire Cup was also at the dinner. It was brought by members of the Dublin football team sponsored by Aer Lingus."]
Kieran McGowan, chairman of Ireland's largest company, CRH plc, was the recipient of the Ireland-U.S. Council's Award for Outstanding Achievement in 2011 which was presented to the former chief executive of IDA Ireland at the council's 49th annual dinner held recently at the Metropolitan Club in Manhattan. Also present at the dinner gathering was another special guest, Sam Maguire, lately in the custody of the All Ireland-winning Dublin Gaelic football team.
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