who won sports personality of the year 2017 ireland
James McClean
title: RTÉ Sports Person of the Year text: award. Counting them separately, there have been twenty-seven winners of the award. Five of these have been Northern Irish. The most recent award was made in 2017 to James McClean. This table lists the total number of awards won by each nationality. The winner is in bold. RTÉ Sports Person of the Year The RTÉ Sports Person of the Year Award is the titular award of the RTÉ Sports Awards ceremony, which takes place each December. The winner is the Irish sportsperson (from the island of Ireland) judged to have achieved the most that year. The winner was originally chosen title: 2017 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship text: games including two All-Ireland football quarter-finals. BBC Northern Ireland broadcast all games from the Ulster Championship which are shown live on RTÉ, with full deferred coverage later in the evening of those games not shown live. "The Sunday Game" team of the year was picked on 17 September, the night of the final. Dublin's James McCarthy was named as the Sunday Game player of the year. Nominations were revealed on 21 September 2017. The football All Stars were revealed on 3 November 2017. Andy Moran was announced as player of the year and Con O'Callaghan as young player of the title: 2017 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship text: and will have exclusive rights to some games. "The Sunday Game" team of the year was picked on 3 September, which was the night of the final. The panel consisting of Brendan Cummins, Michael Duignan, Tomás Mulcahy, Jackie Tyrrell, Anthony Daly, Eddie Brennan and Cyril Farrell unanimously selected Galway's Gearóid McInerney as the Sunday game player of the year. On 2 November, the 2017 "PwC All-Stars" winners were announced. On 3 November 2017 at the presentation of the All-Star awards, Joe Canning was named as the All Stars Hurler of the Year with Conor Whelan named the All Stars Young title: 2017 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award text: and later performed a cover of "All You Need Is Love" to celebrate camaraderie in sport during 2017. Rebecca Ferguson sang "Halo" in honour of Jessica Ennis-Hill and Rag'n'Bone Man performed "Grace" during the "in memoriam". The nominees for the award were revealed by Gabby Logan on 27 November 2017, during BBC One's "The One Show". In November 2017, Hamilton was named in the Paradise Papers. It was reported that Hamilton had avoided paying £3.3 million of Value Added Tax on his private jet worth £16.5 million. The leasing deal set up by advisers was said by the BBC to title: RTÉ Sports Person of the Year text: 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. Eamonn Darcy, Ronan Rafferty and Des Smyth, who won the Alfred Dunhill Cup in 1988, are the only non-individual winners of the