who has won rte sports person of the year five times
RTÉ Sports Person of the Year Three people have won the award multiple times: athlete Sonia O'Sullivan won the award five times, including a record three successive awards, and golfers Pádraig Harrington, with three wins, and Rory McIlroy, who won it twice. The oldest recipient of the award is Christy O'Connor Jnr, who won in 1989 aged 41. Rory McIlroy, who first won in 2011, aged 22, is the youngest winner. Ten sporting disciplines have been represented; golf has the highest representation, with seven recipients.
List of All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winners The current champions are Galway who beat Waterford 0-26 to 2-17 in the 2017 final at Croke Park.