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Cork Person Of The Year
The Cork Person of the Year awards were founded in 1993 to recognise outstanding achievements by people from Cork. Each year 12 Cork persons of the month are chosen, although some months multiple people in the same area are selected. Then, in January of the following year the overall Cork person(s) of the year are selected from this group. Previous Winners References {{reflist Cork (city) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Barry-Murphy
James Barry-Murphy (born 22 August 1954) is an Irish hurling manager and former hurler, Gaelic footballer and association football player. He was the manager of the senior Cork county hurling team from 2011 to 2015, returning a decade after his first tenure as manager. Barry-Murphy is regarded as one of the most iconic players in the history of Gaelic games. He established himself as a dual player with the St Finbarr's club. A dual four-time All-Ireland medallist with the St Finbarr's senior teams, Barry-Murphy also won a combined total of five Munster medals and ten championship medals. Barry-Murphy made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of sixteen when he first linked up with the Cork minor teams as a dual player. An All-Ireland medallist in both codes, he later won a combined total of three All-Ireland medals with the under-21 teams. Barry-Murphy made his senior football debut during the 1973 championship. He went on to play a key role for Cork in attack an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia O'Sullivan
Sonia O'Sullivan (born 28 November 1969) is an Irish people, Irish former track and field athlete. She won a gold medal in the 5000 metres at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics, 1995 World Championships, and a silver medal in the 5000 metres at the Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2000 Olympic Games. Her 2000 m List of world records in athletics, world record of 5:25.36, set in 1994 stood until 2017. O'Sullivan first came to prominence when winning the 1500 m at the Athletics at the 1991 Summer Universiade, 1991 Universiade, before going on to finish fourth in the 3000 m final at the Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics, 1992 Olympic Games. She then won a silver medal in the 1500 m at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics, 1993 World Championships. She was the favourite for the 5000 m title at the Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics, 1996 Olympic Games but dropped out of the final due to illness. As well as her 1995 World title, she wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Murphy (entrepreneur)
Gerry Murphy is an Irish entrepreneur, author and activist. He is best known as a social entrepreneur and for founding Great Gas Petroleum in 2005 and subsequently writing the book ''The Accidental Entrepreneur: How We Turned €3,749 into a €100 million business in Three Years'' published by Orpen Press in 2014. In 2001, Murphy was awarded the Cork Person of the Year for his contribution to the renewal of his local community of Churchtown. Early life and education Murphy was born in Churchtown, County Cork in 1954. Career Murphy joined Bank of Ireland in October 1972 as a bank assistant and later became manager of the bank's advertising function at its head office in Dublin. In 1989, after 17 years, he resigned from Bank of Ireland and joined First National Building Society where he became an executive director. In 1998, he became a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers in Ireland. He also held directorships in Guaranteed Irish, Sherry FitzGerald and the state-owned fertili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adi Roche
Adi Patricia Roche (born 11 July 1955) is an Irish activist, anti-nuclear advocate, and campaigner for peace, humanitarian aid and education. She founded and is CEO of Chernobyl Children's Project International. She has focused on the relief of suffering experienced by children in the wake of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Early life Adi Roche was born in Clonmel, County Tipperary in 1955. After finishing secondary school, she went to work for Aer Lingus. She left in 1984 to work full-time as a volunteer for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. She devised a Peace Education Programme and delivered it in over fifty schools throughout Ireland. In 1990, she became the first Irish woman elected to the board of directors of the International Peace Bureau at the United Nations in Geneva.Ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Keane
Roy Maurice Keane (born 10 August 1971) is an Irish football pundit, coach and former professional player. He is the joint most successful Irish footballer of all time, having won 19 major trophies in his club career, 17 of which came during his time at English club Manchester United. Regarded as one of the best midfielders of his generation, he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players in 2004. Noted for his hardened and brash demeanour, he was ranked at No. 11 on ''The Times'' list of the 50 "hardest" footballers in history in 2007. Keane was inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame in 2021. In his 18-year playing career, Keane played for Cobh Ramblers, Nottingham Forest, and Manchester United before ending his career at Celtic. He was a dominating box-to-box midfielder noted for his aggressive and highly competitive style of play, an attitude that helped him excel as captain of Manchester United from 1997 until his departure in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Falvey
Pat Falvey is an Irish high-altitude mountaineer, expedition leader, polar explorer, entrepreneur, author, corporate/personal trainer/coach, and motivational speaker. He was the first person to complete the Seven Summits (Bass) twice, with the summiting of Mount Everest reached from both the Tibetan (1996) and Nepalese sides (2003). He was expedition leader of the team that saw Clare O'Leary become the first Irish woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest (2003). Other extreme expeditions that he has made include walking to the South Pole, crossing South Georgia Island, and traversing the Greenland ice cap. He started his first business at 15 years of age and has since had businesses in property development, finance, construction, insurance, tourism, and film production. He has been a motivational speaker since the 1990s. Early life Born and raised on the north side of Cork city, Ireland, Falvey started mountain climbing in his late twenties, having worked as a builder an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare O'Leary
Clare O'Leary (born 1972) is an Irish gastroenterologist, mountain climber and adventurer. She was the first Irish woman to climb Mount Everest and complete the Seven Summits. Career Medicine O'Leary developed an interest in medicine, and cancer in particular, when her uncle died from lung cancer during her childhood. After graduating from University College Cork, she spent over ten years training and working at the Cork University Hospital. She currently works as a consultant gastroenterologist and general physician at Tipperary University Hospital. She is also a patron of the Cork University Hospital Charity. Mountaineering and adventure O'Leary made her name in mountaineering in 2004, when she became the first Irish woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, having failed on her first attempt in 2003 due to gastroenteritis. She climbed as a member of the Wyeth Irish Everest Expedition, led by Pat Falvey. She also became the first Irish woman to ascend the Himalayan peak Ama Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
