Eddie Sheehy receives the Hugh O Flaherty International Humanitarian Award

Eddie Sheehy, a native of Castleisland and founder of The Kenya Education Project, received the Hugh O Flaherty International Humanitarian Award, Radio Kerry reported. The ceremony took place on the evening of October 30, 2026. Sheehy expressed that it was an honour for his organization to be recognized alongside other worthy groups and individuals. [1]

The Kenya Education Project was established to raise funds and provide ongoing assistance to a school and local residents in Kenya, according to Radio Kerry. [1]

The annual award honors the legacy of Monsignor Hugh O Flaherty, a native of Killarney. O Flaherty was an Irish Catholic priest and a senior official of the Roman Curia who contributed to the Catholic resistance against Nazism. During the Second World War, he saved 6,500 Allied soldiers and Jewish people while evading the German Gestapo, which earned him the moniker The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican. [1][2]