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Awards Season at The Gleneagle Group
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Awards season is in full swing at The Gleneagle Group with the annual staff awards taking place recently and the group also picking up a number of national awards.
Recent national accolades include The Maritime Hotel in Bantry picking up a supreme award and The Brehon winning a gold award in the four-star category for their immaculate standards in housekeeping and accommodation services at the IASI awards. The Brehon also won a silver merit award at the CIE Awards of Excellence which took place in Dublin earlier this week.
At the staff awards, Employee of the Year went to Christina Nolan for The Gleneagle Hotel, Karen Hussey for The Brehon and Derek Lee for The Gleneagle Group.
In The Gleneagle Hotel categories, Seán Counihan won Colleague of the Year, Bernard Murphy won Best New Talent, Brian Kiely won the Emerging Talent Award, Nora Carroll and Monika Wlorarska shared the award for Going The Extra Mile, Sheila Griffin won the Hero Award and Paulius Karmilcovas won the Back of House Award.
In The Brehon categories, Ruairi O’Grady won Colleague of the Year, Niamh Morrissey and Robert Spillane shared the award for Best New Talent, Yvonne O’Flaherty won the Emerging Talent Award, Kimmie O’Keeffe and Aneta Styanczyk shared the award for Going The Extra Mile and Dan Moynihan won the Hero of the Year Award.
In The Gleneagle Group category, which represents the shared departments across all The Gleneagle Group properties, the winners were Helen Sleator who won Colleague of the Year, April Birdthistle who won the award for Best New Talent, Sheena Cahill who won the award for Emerging Talent, Fiona O’Connor who won the award for Going the Extra Mile and Kathleen Lenihan who won the Hero Award.
A number of team members also received new badges for their length of service, these included Christy O’Sullivan who has worked at The Gleneagle for over 45 years, Mossie Gleeson who has worked at the hotel for 35 years and Norma Lynch and Terence McCarthy who have both worked at The Gleneagle for over 25 years.
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