Gala event of the year coming up on RTÉ 1.
The nominees for the RTÉ Sports - Person of the Year are: Rob Heffernan, Martyn Irvine, Tony Kelly, Michael Darragh Macauley, Tony McCoy, Michael McKillop, Annalise Murphy, Joseph O’Brien, Jason Quigley, Jonathan Sexton and Jason Smyth.
The nine nominees for Team of the Year include the four All-Ireland winners from their respective codes in Gaelic Games: the Clare hurlers, Dublin footballers, the Cork Ladies Football team and the Galway camogie team.
The Ireland Men’s Boxing team have been nominated for their exploits at both the World and European Championships.
The Grand Slam winning Ireland Women’s Rugby team and Leinster Rugby, who won both the Rabo Pro12 and the Amlin Challenge Cup, the Paralympic Swimming team, which brought home a best-ever total of eight medals from the World Championships and Airtricity League winners St Patrick’s Athletichave also been nominated.
This year’s nominees for Manager of the Year are Liam Buckley of St Patrick’s Athletic, Ireland Women’s Rugby coach Phillip Doyle, Clare hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald, Dublin football manager Jim Gavin, racing trainer Willie Mullins, Cork ladies’ football manager Eamonn Ryan, Irish boxing coach Billy Walsh and Galway camogie manager Tony Ward.
Womens Rugby 
Davy not even wearing a tie, scruffy cunt.
Darragh is flat out with his fake laugh tonight.
Davy once again coming across as the absolute gent he is, Clare are lucky to have a man like him in charge of this special bunch of hurlers.
FFS sake. No nominations for Trent Johnston, Phil Simmons or the Ireland Cricket Team is a national scandal.
My picks:
Individual: Tony Kelly
Team: Dublin
Manager: Davy Fitzgerald
What did they do this year mate?
Sitting on the couch there Davy’s feet don’t touch the ground
Won the treble, pal.
Never heard of any of them.
John Delaney 
Resplendent in his green silk tie
Great to see AP flying over to give this event some gravitas:clap:
Rog the documentary ffs
Indeed. How the fuck could anyone listen to that boring fuck drone on for more that 2 minutes?
This show is a real comedown after the great Great British fare served up on BBC last Sunday. I’d imagine it’s a similar feeling to what it would be like if the pdc “World Championship” was held after the real thing at Lakeside, instead of before it.
Notorious Cork racist Robbie Heffernan up now.
Is there a more absurd sport in the world than walking? How the fuck are you supposed to take that seriously? Fair play to yer man Heffernan all the same, a superb achievement.
Richie Sadlier has his nose well and truly in the RTE trough now, blagged his way to tonights event somehow. He’ll probably compare it to some Christmas party at Millwall where a few of his team mates roasted some bird.
And he comes across like a bit of a cunt…walking and darts are not sports…