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Shortlist for Tipperary International Peace Award announced

Those shortlisted include Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental, Médecins Sans Frontiéres and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

THE SHORTLIST FOR the Tipperary International Peace Award has been announced.

The award, which has previously been awarded to Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev and Pakistani activitst Malala Yousafzai, has been awarded since 1984 by the Tipperary Peace Convention with the focus on promoting values of peace and peaceful co-operation.

The shortlist, which was announced on New Years’ Day, includes a number of groups individuals who have worked both nationally and internationally to promote values of peace. 

Nominees 

In total the shortlist is made up of five nominees. It is hoped the prize will be awarded in the early summer.

This year’s shorlist are:

  • Burmese human rights lawyer Robert San Aung
  • Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental 
  • Médecins Sans Frontiéres 
  • Sr. Stanilaus Kennedy, Fr. Peter McVerry and Bro. Kevin Crowley nominated collectively for their work on homelessness 
  • Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon 

San Aung has been imprisoned six times in the past forty years for his activism in Burma and has experienced constant harassment and persecution on account of this.

Tomi Reichental has been based in Ireland since the 1960s and has travelled to schools around the country talking about his experience during the war. He has written a book ‘I was a boy in Belsen’ in which he recounts his time in the concentration camps.

Médecins Sans Frontiéres – or Doctors Without Borders – have been operating since 1971 to provide emergency medical care in countries with the most need. This year they have played a vital role in combating the spread of Ebola is west Africa.

The award

An exact date for its being awarded has not yet been announced. The recipient of the prize will travel to Tipperary to receive it – and its awarding is generally fixed for convenience with the winner’s schedule.

Speaking to TheJournal.ie about the award, the Tipperary Peace Convention’s Honorary Secretary, Martin Quinn, said:

I feel the award is hugely important. Over the years it has been awarded to many different people working at the coal front – it has made a huge impression. That recipients travel from all over the world to collect it says a lot about the award. 

Read: 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai has won the Nobel Peace Prize

Also: Sweden to recognise a new Palestinian state

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    May 13th 2022, 10:55 AM

    So many jokes here.. ahh

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    Mute Jason Flynn-Wall
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    May 13th 2022, 10:57 AM

    @Great White Hope: way too many.

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    May 13th 2022, 11:12 AM

    @Great White Hope: I won’t fall into that trap….

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    May 13th 2022, 4:47 PM

    @John Mulligan: will try my best not to either.

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    Mute Fr Romeo sensini.
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    May 13th 2022, 11:08 AM

    And yet we still re elect them.

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    Mute Dave Hammond
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    May 13th 2022, 11:15 AM

    @Fr Romeo sensini.: as Dermot Morgan said during the hey day of satire on Scrap Saturday – the hardest thing about writing humour about our politicians in leinster house is that the reality of what goes on is such a joke shop it’s difficult to make stuff up that funnier

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    May 13th 2022, 11:47 AM

    What kinda of a pension do they get?
    At least they are turning up on a daily basis

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    May 13th 2022, 10:56 AM

    Arent rats mice and slugs working in leinster house?

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    May 13th 2022, 11:12 AM

    @John Johnes: you’ll have to do better than that

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    May 13th 2022, 11:00 AM

    Sure we have known for years its full of RATS and leaks.

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    May 13th 2022, 11:55 AM

    @Stephen Carslake: Sinn Fein won’t stand for that .. they will find a bog for them somewhere ..

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    May 13th 2022, 12:10 PM

    Workers also found sloths, snakes, cheetahs, several white elephants and a cockortoo.

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    May 13th 2022, 11:56 AM

    You regularly read of restaurants closed down for less.

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    May 13th 2022, 11:08 AM

    How many legs do the rats have?

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    May 13th 2022, 11:16 AM

    Pay peanuts get monkeys, pay to much get Rodents & sluggss.

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    May 13th 2022, 11:43 AM

    And that was before they checked for vermin !

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    May 13th 2022, 11:13 AM

    That’s not a very nice thing to say about our TD’s.

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    May 13th 2022, 10:59 AM

    Waterford Whispers?

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    May 13th 2022, 1:01 PM

    I’m sure they felt right at home.

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    May 13th 2022, 11:50 AM

    I knew about the rats

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    May 13th 2022, 12:00 PM

    Only 6 months??? Are we sure about that?

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    May 13th 2022, 1:01 PM

    Them and then there’s the politicians.

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    May 13th 2022, 11:39 AM

    Shurr there’s been a massive SF infestation, there’s no getting rid of them.

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    Mute Franny Ando
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    May 13th 2022, 1:03 PM

    @Martin O Connell: Correct they are there to stay:)

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    May 13th 2022, 1:40 PM

    Will they have to apply for re-election ?

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    May 13th 2022, 2:03 PM

    I’m sure they felt at home

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    May 13th 2022, 1:58 PM

    This is just to easy

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    May 13th 2022, 12:55 PM

    We all have to have a crack at a few one liners. Come on people

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    May 13th 2022, 12:29 PM

    That’s no way to talk about our TD’s

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    May 13th 2022, 3:42 PM

    This headline is actually very funny and hits the nail on the head.

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    May 13th 2022, 4:47 PM

    Ah cmon lads. The most clickbaity piece I have ever seen in the Journal and that’s telling something.

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    May 13th 2022, 9:50 PM

    I pity the rodents

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    May 13th 2022, 6:49 PM

    Sure leinster house is full of them already, the rats, mice and slugs will have to move elsewhere. Better still, leave them, they won’t cost the country any money in salaries and pensions

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    May 13th 2022, 7:05 PM

    At least they appear for what they are

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    May 14th 2022, 5:48 PM

    Id say they feel quite at home!!

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    May 14th 2022, 6:33 AM

    The jokes just write with that headline

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