The 2003 Top 100 issue features renowned Irish dancer and Irish American of the Year Michael Flatley, along with profiles of other dazzling honorees, including actor Aidan Quinn, bone cancer specialist Paddy Boland, soprano Mary Dunleavy, investigative journalists Joe Fahy and Kevin Corcoran, missionary of the prisons Sister Antonia, romance novelist Nora Roberts, pool champion Karen Corr, and astronaut Eileen Collins. Additionally, John Kernaghan discusses the journey of the Jeanie Johnston Famine ship replica to the U.S.
