Boston Irish Cultural Leader Martina Curtin is Named Community Champion by Irish Echo Newspaper

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Martina Curtin 

Congratulations to Boston Irish cultural leader and businesswoman Martina Curtin, who received the 2024 Community Champion Award from the Irish Echo Newspaper, a national weekly based in New York City. The award is being presented to Curtin and eight other recipients at a ceremony at Rosie O'Grady's Restaurant in New York on Friday, October 11.

Born and raised in County Clare, Curtin is currently Board President of the Irish Cultural Centre of Greater Boston, the first woman to hold the position.  The Centre was founded in 1989 to celebrate Irish culture and heritage in the Greater Boston Area, and today is the largest Irish organization in New England. She is also co-founder of Mná Mheiriceá, a women's networking group founded in 2023 by women for women. 

On the business front, Martina founded CHC Home Care, a boutique home care agency enabling clients to receive nursing care in the comfort of their own homes.  


Irish Echo Editor Ray O'Hanlon said this year's honorees "come from every walk of life and every kind of job. People advance worthy concerns and causes and by doing so are living up to the best traditions of the American Irish. All have in common the desire and the drive to help their families, friend, neighbors and communities."

The Irish Cultural Centre congratulated Martina with a full page ad in the newspaper, praising her "leadership, dedication and unwavering commitment to our community." 

Other 2024 Community Champion honorees include Michael Stamatis, Team Happy Feet, Brian Miller, William Lee, Rosemarie Byrne, Arthur Lanese, Heidi Cinquegranal and Catherine Mitchell Miceli. 

In addition, New York Irish leader John Dearie is being recognized as the newspaper's Irish Person of the Year.

Learn more about upcoming events at the Irish Cultural Centre, located in Canton, MA, about 10 miles from Boston. 




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