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About the Awards

Celebrity Quotes

There are amazing people doing incredible things all the time and that's why the these awards are so important.: Lorraine Keane TV Personality

The Awards honour the heroes in all of our communities ensuring that they get the recognition they truly deserve.: Brent Pope People of the Year Celebrity Ambassador

There are heroes in our communities all around us, if we take a moment to look.: Mary Byrne Face of Rehabbingo.com

I can hardly believe that it's twenty years since the banquet in the Burlington. The awards are among the things we can be proud of in the country and it's a credit to Rehab to have kept them going.: Seamus Heaney Poet, Nobel Prize winner and recipient of a People of the Year Award (1989)

Following on from an Olympic silver medal, the People of the Year Award was the icing on the cake!: Kenneth Egan Olympic medal-winning boxer and People of the Year recipient (2008)

The calibre of the people acknowledged makes me proud to be Irish.: Gráinne Seoige RTÉ television presenter