The People Of The Year Awards is an annual show in Ireland organised by the Rehab Group, televised by RTÉ

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 television and hosted by Gráinne Seoige

Gráinne Seoige

Gráinne Seoige is an Irish television presenter, Gaeilgeoir, and "fashion icon",Gráinne Seoige is one of the few television presenters who has worked for all terrestrial channels in the Republic of Ireland at some point. She has worked as a news anchor on TG4, TV3 and Sky News Ireland...

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The Awards provide a unique opportunity for the Irish public to honour outstanding contributions made by individuals and organisations to life in
Ireland.

The 2011 edition took place on Saturday 11th September.

Notable Winners

• Willie Bermingham
  Willie Bermingham
  Dr Willie Bermingham was an Irish firefighter and campaigner, who founded ALONE, an organization highlighting the plight of old people living alone....
  
  
• Maeve Binchy
  Maeve Binchy
  Maeve Binchy is an Irish novelist, newspaper columnist and speaker. Educated at University College Dublin, she worked as a teacher then a journalist at The Irish Times and later became a writer of novels and short stories.Many of her novels are set in Ireland, dealing with the tensions between...
  
  
• Bob Geldof
• Veronica Guerin
  Veronica Guerin
  Veronica Guerin was an Irish crime reporter who was murdered on 26 June 1996 by drug lords, an event which, alongside the murder of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe three weeks earlier, helped establish the Criminal Assets Bureau....
  
  
• Pádraig Harrington
  Padraig Harrington
  Pádraig P. Harrington is an Irish professional golfer who plays on The European Tour and The PGA Tour. He has won three major championships: The Open Championship in 2007 and 2008 and the PGA Championship, also in 2008.-Background:...
  
  
• Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
  
  
• John Hume
  John Hume
  John Hume is a former Irish politician from Derry, Northern Ireland. He was a founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, and was co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize, with David Trimble....
  
  
• Brian Keenan
  Brian Keenan
  Brian Keenan may be:*Brian Keenan , Provisional Irish Republican Army member*Brian Keenan , United States musician...
  
  
• Ronan Kerr
  Murder of Ronan Kerr
  Police Constable Ronan Kerr was a Police Service of Northern Ireland officer killed by a booby-trap car bomb planted outside his home on the 2 April 2011 in Killyclogher near Omagh...
  
  
• Rory McIlroy
  Rory McIlroy
  Rory McIlroy is a Northern Irish professional golfer from Holywood in County Down. He has represented Europe, Great Britain & Ireland, and Ireland as both an amateur and a professional. He had a successful amateur career, topping the World Amateur Golf Ranking for one week as a 17-year-old in 2007...
  
  
• George J. Mitchell
  George J. Mitchell
  George John Mitchell, Jr., is the former U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace under the Obama administration. A Democrat, Mitchell was a United States Senator who served as the Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995...
  
  
• Mo Mowlam
  Mo Mowlam
  Marjorie "Mo" Mowlam was a British Labour Party politician. She was the Member of Parliament for Redcar from 1987 to 2001 and served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.Mowlam's time as Northern...
  
  
• Daráine Mulvihill
  Daráine Mulvihill
  Daráine Mulvihill was voted Irish Person of the Year in 2001. A survivor of Meningitis, she lost both her legs due to the illness and has been an advocate for immunization. Daráine was appointed to the Irish Council of State by Mary McAleese for her second term as President of Ireland, starting in...
  
  
• Niall Quinn
  Niall Quinn
  Niall John Quinn honorary MBE is a former Irish international footballer, and the ex-chairman of Sunderland AFC. He still works at the club as an overseas manager. He is also heavily involved in the management side of horse racing...
  
  
• Keith Duffy
  Keith Duffy
  Keith Peter Thomas Francis John Duffy is an Irish singer-songwriter, actor, drummer, dancer and television presenter. He began his career as part of Boyzone in the 1990s. In the 2000s, he achieved critical acclaim for his acting roles, particularly in soap operas such as Coronation Street and Fair...
  
  
• Nuala O'Loan
  Nuala O'Loan
  Nuala Patricia O'Loan, Baroness O'Loan, DBE is a noted public figure in Northern Ireland. She was the first Police Ombudsman in between 1999 and 2007. In July 2009, it was announced that she was to be appointed to the House of Lords. Consequently, she was raised to the peerage as Baroness O'Loan,...
  
  
• John O'Shea (humanitarian)
  John O'Shea (humanitarian)
  John O'Shea is founder and CEO of GOAL, an Irish non-governmental organization devoted to assisting the poorest of the poor. His first career was as a sports journalist and GOAL retains significant links to the sporting community, especially in Ireland.O'Shea was shortlisted in the top 40 of 2010...
  
  
• Joe Dolan
  Joe Dolan
  Joseph "Joe" Francis Robert Dolan was an Irish entertainer, recorder and singer of easy listening songs...