The Rehab People of the Year Awards is an annual awards ceremony in Ireland organised by the Rehab Group, televised by RTÉ television, and hosted by Gráinne Seoige. The 2012 ceremony took place on Saturday 15 September in the Citywest Hotel, Dublin. See www.peopleoftheyear.com
Ireland’s answer to an honours system the Awards, which have been taking place since 1975, provide a unique opportunity for the Irish public to honour outstanding achievements and contributions made by individuals and organisations to life in our country today. The winners are chosen by members of the public through a nominations process and finalised by a panel of adjudicators, composed of leading members of the media, voluntary sector and business community.
The following is a list of people/groups who have won an award.
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, people, year, award and/or winners:
“Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)
“We saw the machinery where murderers are now executed. Seven have been executed. The plan is better than the old one. It is quietly done. Only a few, at the most about thirty or forty, can witness [an execution]. It excites nobody outside of the list permitted to attend. I think the time for capital punishment has passed. I would abolish it. But while it lasts this is the best mode.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“I am a colored woman or a Negro woman. Either one is OK. People dislike those words now. Today these use this term African American. It wouldn’t occur to me to use that. I prefer to think of myself as an American, that’s all!”
—Annie Elizabeth Delany (b. 1891)
“By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.”
—Maggie Kuhn (b. 1905)
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
“The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)