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Donegal woman with close links to Derry receives major award in New York
Congratulations to Buncrana s Jane McCarter O Dowd
New York Irish Centre s Woman of the Year, Donegal s Jane McCarter O Dowd, with her husband, Rob, dad, John, and mum, Breda.
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The New York Irish Centre (NYIC) inaugural Woman of the Year Award has been scooped by Buncrana émigré, Jane McCarter O Dowd.
Jane, who previously worked at the Playhouse in Derry, was also the Centre s first Arts and Cultural Director, a position she held for eight years before leaving in 2019 to join The Ireland Funds team.
The Buncrana woman attributed her NYIC success to her formative drama experiences at Scoil Íosagain and Scoil Mhuire in Buncrana, under the tutelage of Sinead McLaughlin and Patricia Tinney Doherty.
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Roma Downey received the first ever Irish Diaspora Award from the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) and the government of Ireland in Dublin on April 9 for her “extraordinary achievements and vision as a producer and an actress alongside her charity and humanitarian work worldwide.”
Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, the youngest of six, Roma and her husband, Mark Burnett, the British-born television producer she married in 2007, live in Malibu, California with Reilly, her daughter from her marriage to director David Anspaugh, and James and Cameron, Mark’s sons.
Though she first made a name for herself as an award-winning actress, particularly in her nine seasons as Monica on the CBS series Touched by an Angel, Roma is also a highly successful producer.