Golden Girls: Katie George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal are shortlisted with some huge names in Irish sport for the RTE Sports Star of the Year 2016. And they are not Irish cycling's only contenders in the field.
Having taken a silver medal in the road race and won gold in the TT at the Rio Paralympics, tandem pairing Katie George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal have been shortlisted for Ireland's biggest annual sporting award.
The contenders for the RTE Sportsperson of the Year have just been unveiled and the golden girls of Irish cycling are there along with Eoghan Clifford, who also took gold away from Brazil in the summer.
Clifford won bronze in the individual pursuit and gold in the road TT.
The Irish trio really flew the flag for their country and for cycling this year and it would be absolutely brilliant to get them over the line at these awards.
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Eoghan Clifford in road race action in Rio; he took a bronze from the velodrome and a gold from the road TT.
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The cyclists face a tough challenge in being named among an incredible group of athletes from across all sports, but they have faced big tests in the past and prevailed.
Other contenders include double world champion boxer Carl Frampton and World Rugby Player of the Year nominee Jamie Heaslip.
Also in the running is UFC sensation Conor McGregor, Olympic silver medal winning sailor Annalise Murphy, world champion and Olympic silver medal-winning rower Paul O’Donovan and Daryl Horgan Dundalk FC’s outstanding player in an amazing year at home and in Europe for the team.
The full list, including those from domestic sports, is below.
And the nominees are...
- Seamus Callanan – The Sunday Game Hurler of the Year capped an incredible year by scoring 13 points to ensure Tipperary’s All Ireland victory.
- Eoghan Clifford – Claimed a road cycling Gold and a track cycling bronze at his first Paralympic Games
- Katie George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal – Picked up Gold and Silver Paralympic Road cycling medals
- Brian Fenton – Dublin’s midfield general continued his phenomenal record of being unbeaten in a Dublin jersey
- Carl Frampton – Became just the second ever Irishman to have held World Titles in two different weight classes
- Denise Gaule – Denise added the Camogie Player of the Year Award to her first O’Duffy Cup in a memorable campaign.
- Jamie Heaslip – The World Rugby Player of the Year nominee was a colossus in Ireland’s victories over South Africa, New Zealand and Australia
- Daryl Horgan – Dundalk’s magic man was the outstanding player in a truly outstanding team in the league and Europe
- Conor McGregor – The Notorious furthered his claim as Ireland’s most renowned sportsman by moving weight to claim his second UFC title
- Annalise Murphy – Annalise came back from her London 2012 heartbreak to claim an Olympic Sailing Silver Medal in Rio
- Paul O’Donovan – Added a World Championship Gold to the Olympic Silver he picked up with his brother in Rio.
- Bríd Stack – Bríd was named ladies footballer of the Year after picking up her 11th All Ireland medal.
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