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About the Awards

Celebrity Quotes

The calibre of the people acknowledged makes me proud to be Irish.: Gráinne Seoige RTÉ television presenter

Following on from an Olympic silver medal, the People of the Year Award was the icing on the cake!: Kenny Egan Olympic medal-winning boxer and People of the Year recipient (2008)

I can hardly believe that it's twenty years since the banquet in the Burlington. The awards are among the things we can be proud of in the country and it's a credit to Rehab to have kept them going.: Seamus Heaney Poet, Nobel Prize winner and recipient of a People of the Year Award (1989)