Help choose 2013’s People of the Year Each year the People of the Year Awards, organised by Rehab and shown live on RTÉ television, shine a light on some of the many unsung heroes who are living in communities throughout Ireland.
Help choose 2013’s People of the Year
Each year the People of the Year Awards, organised by Rehab and shown live on RTÉ television, shine a light on some of the many unsung heroes who are living in communities throughout Ireland.
And as always, we need nominations from the readers of Metro Éireann to help to find this year’s award recipients.
If you think you know someone who has done something extraordinary, who has made a real difference, who has gone above and beyond the call of duty and whom you feel deserves a People of the Year Award, then nominate them now.
You could also nominate in one of our specific categories: Young Person of the Year, International Person of the Year, Sports Person of the Year or Community Group of the Year.
The closing date for entries is 14 June 2013 and nominations can be made at PeopleOfTheYear.com or by writing to us at People of the Year Awards, Rehab, Roslyn Park, Sandymount, Dublin 4.
This is your chance to honour inspiring people in your county. Awards will be presented live on RTÉ One television on Saturday 14 September. And who knows? One of this year’s winners could well be from Dublin!
Sonya Felton
People of the Year Awards
Progressive President with a finger on the people’s pulse
I remember saying during the ageist kerfuffle playing out at dinner tables and on the airwaves throughout the Presidential election process, that what we needed in a President was someone who could deliver insightful, inspirational speeches at critical times – and that I could think of no one better for this role than the man we then knew as Michael D.
Today, I am pleased to confirm the validity of this claim. Michael D Higgins’ campaign offered the first gleam of hope in a very bleak time, for a very long time. And as our President, he has his finger on the pulse of the people.
With our society at absolute breaking point and in desperate need of reprieve, he rises above politics to speak the truth – the role this citizen feels was the key aspiration of those constructing carefully the distinction of President and Government.
This year our President gives Ireland the opportunity to spring out of the too-long relegated category of forced pragmatist and powerless, and back to our rightful place of proper, proud and progressive. Thank you, Mr President.
Catherine Lynch
Dublin 20
