Cork Person of the Year

Cork Person of the Year Award Scheme. 1993 - 2020. These awards were founded in 1993 to recognise outstanding achievements by people from Cork.[1] 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[2] are selected from this group. The awards scheme is Cork's premier award scheme, backed by Cork City Council and Cork County council over the last 27 years. Award Judges are Ann Doherty, Chief Executive, Cork City Council and Tim Lucey, Chief Executive, Cork County Council. Awards Organisers are Manus O'Callaghan; Pat Lemasney; Ann-Marie O'Sullivan. Sponsors are Irish Examiner/ The Echo ; RTE; Southern; Lexus Cork; AM O'Sullivan PR; Cork Crystal; Tony O'Connell Photography; CAVS; Musgrave MarketPlace. Past Hall of Fame recipients are Ted Crosbie(2018) and Fergal Keane OBE(2019). People made Honorary Corkpersons at awards are David & Patsy Puttnam(2012), Jeremy Irons(2013), Michael Flatley(2014), Joe Schmidt(2019), John Bowman(2020). Manus O'Callaghan, Awards Founder & Organiser said " Our award scheme celebrates Cork's greatest asset - our people." President Michael D. Higgins said " It has been inspiring to read and hear the stories of generosity, imaginative thinking, enormous compassion and often great courage which have been behind the many nominations for this award across the last two decades." BBC Foreign Correspondent Fergal Keane OBE wrote " Nobody would've dared suggest to people at this gathering that they didn't have the right to be Cork people, Irish people and Europeans...as for which mattered the most? can there ever be a doubt in the heart of a true Corkonian?. Acclaimed young writer, author of Only Ever Yours, Asking For It wrote " If one of us succeeds, then all of us do. This is where I will plant my flag. I'm from Cork, like. "

Previous Winners

Year	Winner	Contribution
1993	Sr. Colette Hickey	Homeless Charity
1994	Dr. Michael Mortell	UCC Leadership
1995	John Bermingham	Cope Foundation
1996	Barry Galvin	CAB
1997	Paddy Comerford	Theatre
1998	Kevin Downing	Overcoming Disability
1999	Jimmy Barry Murphy	GAA
2000	Sonia O’Sullivan	Athletics
2001	Gerry Murphy	Business
2002	Adi Roche	Founder and chief executive of the Chernobyl Children International (1991)
2003	Fr. Sean Healy	Social Justice
2004	Roy Keane	Sport
2005	Prof. John A. Murphy	History
2006	Dan Donovan	Theatre
2007	John Fitzpatrick	Choral Festival
2008	Pat Falvey & Dr. Clare O’Leary	Adventure
2009	Conor Buckley	Business
2010	Paddy O’Brien	Over-60s Talent
2011	Liam Casey	Business
2012	Bill Deasy & Fr Pierce Cormac	Community
2013	Rob Heffernan	Athletics
2014	Louise O'Keeffe	Social Justice
2015	John Looney	Childrens Charity.
2016	Paul & Gary O'Donovan	Olympic Rowing Medalists.
2017	Bob Seward	Cork Academy of Music.
2018	Eilise Ireland & Simon Meehan	Science Students award winners.[3] [4]

References

1. "Who will be cork person of the year". Cork Independent. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
2. "Cork Person of the Year Awards - The Book - Lettertec". Lettertec. 2015-02-03. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
3. [email protected]
4. "Rob Heffernan is Cork Person of the Year 2013". TheCork.ie. 2014-01-17. Retrieved 17 January 2014.