The Search Is On To Find Offaly’s ‘Everyday Hero’

The People of the Year Awards, in partnership with Today with Sean O’Rourke on RTÉ Radio 1, is looking for local heroes and ordinary people who do extraordinary things in Offaly. Do you know someone who does extraordinary things that really make a difference to their family, friends, neighbours, work colleagues or local community?  This is your chance to have their unsung heroism acknowledged […]

Final Chance To Nominate Tipperary Heroes For People Of The Year Award

Actor Aoibhín Garrihy and former winner Milo McCarthy (14) have joined forces urging the public to nominate their Tipperary heroes for a People of the Year Award before nominations close. The final date for submitting nominations is Friday, December 1st – the last chance for the public to nominate Ireland’s heroes for this year’s Awards. […]

Search Begins For Offaly’s 2017 Heroes

Celebrities and former winners have joined forces to launch the People of the Year Awards as the search begins to find Offaly’s 2017 heroes. RTE broadcaster Miriam O’Callaghan and Celebrity Operation Transformation contestant James Patrice launched the awards at the Mansion House in Dublin this week alongside former winners Aoibheann Mangan (11) and Padraic Godwin (12).  […]

Rehab Group Urge Government To Ratify UN Convention On Rights Of Persons With Disabilities

EXPLORER Mark Pollock joined campaigners from Rehab Group and a number of prominent disability charities today, to urge the Government to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Ireland first signed the UN CRPD a decade ago, in March 2007, but have as yet not made it legally binding by […]