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. In January of the following year the overall Cork person(s) of the year are selected from this group.
Previous Winners Year Winner Contribution 1993 Colette Hickey Homeless charity 1994 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 Sean Healy Social justice 2004 Roy Keane Sport 2005 John A. Murphy History 2006 Dan Donovan Theatre 2007 John Fitzpatrick Choral festival 2008 Pat Falvey and Clare O'Leary Adventure 2009 Conor Buckley Business 2010 Paddy O’Brien Over-60s talent 2011 Liam Casey Business 2012 Bill Deasy Community 2013 Rob Heffernan Athletics
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