National Bravery Awards have been given to 26 people who risked their own lives to help others.
The presentations were made by Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl at Farmleigh House in Dublin.
Seventeen of the awards were for aiding a person in danger of drowning, four involved saving someone from fire, and two related to intervening to rescue an individual who was being assaulted.
The 26 receipients were from counties Wexford, Kildare, Laois, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Mayo, Meath, Wicklow, Donegal and Dublin.
Marc O' Connor, from Limerick, was the youngest person to receive an award.
Last December, when he was aged nine, he was a passenger in his mother's car when it hit black ice and crashed.
Both his mother and sister were trapped in the car but Marc was able to free himself and climb out of a broken window.
He successfully managed to stop a passing school bus and raise the alarm.
Eric Doran, from Dublin, intervened to stop the kidnapping of a woman on Blackhorse Avenue in Dublin in January 2020.
Mr Doran stopped his car when he saw a man attempting to force a woman into the boot of a car.
As he approached, the assailant threw the victim to the ground and fled.
Information provided by Mr Doran helped gardaí to arrest the man, who was subsequently convicted and imprisioned.
Joseph Cahill, from Galway, saved three people who were trapped upstairs when a fire broke out in a house in Ballybane last January.
He brought a ladder to an upstairs window and helped the three individuals to climb down.
Christo Drami was awarded a Sliver Medal and Certificate of Bravery for invervening to stop the attempted murder of a woman in Dublin.
After hearing cries from the communal area of an apartment building, Mr. Drami came out of his flat and discovered a woman being attacked by a man. She had been stabbed several times.
Mr Drami tackled the assailant and incapacitated him until gardaí arrived.
The oldest recipient was Fred Corcoran from Dublin.
He rescued a girl who had fallen into the River Dodder in 1947, when he aged about 15.
One Gold Medal was awarded posthumously to 41-year-old James Nicholl who lost his life trying to save a man from drowning in the River Liffey in Dublin earlier this year.
David Dunne from Kilkenny and Mike Bolger from Carlow received an award for the rescue of four people -
three children and a man - from the River Barrow in Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny in 2020.
The full list of award recipients:
- Eric Doran (Dublin). Certificate of Bravery
- Marc O'Connor (Limerick). Certificate of Bravery
- Joseph Cahill (Galway). Certificate of Bravery
- Darren Byrnes and Ian Bolger (Clare). Certificate of Bravery
- Donnchadh Kennedy (Dublin). Bronze Medal and Certificate of Bravery
- Don O'Neil and Donal Hanley (Kerry). Bronze Medal and Certificate of Bravery
- Garda Caitriona Munnelly (Mayo) & Sergeant Brendan O'Toole (Meath). Bronze Medal and Certificate of Bravery
- Michael McKeon (Dublin). Bronze Medal and Certificate of Bravery
- Brian Boyle (Wexford). Silver Medal and Certificate of Bravery
- Christo Drami (Dublin). Silver Medal and Certificate of Bravery
- David Doran (Wicklow). Silver Medal and Certificate of Bravery
- Fred Corcoran, (Dublin). Silver Medal and Certificate of Bravery
- Tom Fitzgerald (Dublin) and John Burke, (Sligo). Silver Medal and Certificate of Bravery
- Francis Doherty (Donegal). Silver Medal and Certificate of Bravery
- Garda Shane Smyth (Kildare) and Garda Padraig Marum (Laois). Silver Medal and Certificate of Bravery
- Kevin O'Sullivan (Cork). Silver Medal and Certificate of Bravery
- Conor Power (Wicklow). Silver Medal and Certificate of Bravery
- David Dunne (Kilkenny) and Mike Bolger (Carlow). Silver Medal and Certificate of Bravery
- Callum Clarke (Roscommon). Silver Medal and Certificate of Bravery
- James Nicholl (Dublin). Gold Medal and Certificate of Bravery. (Posthumous)
