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Sports Star 2025

Active South Dublin Sports Awards 2025. 

All monthly sports stars are in the running for Sports Star of the Year award.

The Active South Dublin Sports Awards are run in association with The Echo and with support from SDCC and the Plaza Hotel.

January Sports Star

Abbey Molloy

ABBEY Molloy made club history when she became the first member to win the National U18 Female Boxing Championships.

February Sports Star

Eileen O’Brien

EILEEN O’Brien helped the Ireland Athletics track and Field Masters O70s team break two World records. The Lucan Harriers athlete helped break the W70 4×800 metres world record on February 12, and then she went on to run the third leg in the W70 4x400m metres squad to break another world record just two weeks later.

March Sports Star

Ellen Walshe

Two-time Irish Olympian and Paris 2024 Finalist Ellen Walshe smashed the oldest Irish Swimming Record, the long course (50m) 200m Butterfly, at the Leinster Aspiring Champions Meet in Dublin.

April Sports Star

Zoe McDermott

Zoe McDermott is Ireland’s first female WKF medallist. Following the Karate Youth League in Guadalajara last month, Zoe from Kilnamanagh made history by becoming the first female to ever medal at a prestigious karate event.
South Dublin County Sports Partnership

Active South Dublin
The Echo Newspaper

The Echo Newspaper
South Dublin County Council

South Dublin County Council