The joint winners of the University of Galway's Nelson Mandela Anti-Racism Award are to return their awards over the university's ties with an Israeli IT.
Dylan and Shane O'Halloran will give back their 2025 awards during Anti Racism Week in protest of the university's research partnership with Technion.
The O’ Halloran brothers received the inaugural Nelson Mandela Leadership Award for their passionate advocacy for human rights, anti-apartheid, and decolonization and their leadership in the student Voluntary Services Society and Palestine Solidarity Society.
They're following in the footsteps of filmmakers Lelia Doolin and Margo Harkin, actor Olwen Fouére, historian Kirby Miller and the late activist Margaretta D’Arcy, who have all returned their doctorates.
The Campus Anti Genocide coalition have long been calling on the University to cease collaboration with Technion, holding several protests in the past year.
