Aoife O’Rourke has been shortlisted for the RTE Sportsperson of the 12 months award.
The Roscommon native’s excellent achievements in 2025 are unprecedented and might be unrepeatable: The 2-time Olympian received World silver in March on the IBA Girls’s World Championships and World gold on the World Boxing Championships. Boxing’s altering standing international governance panorama means this feat is probably not replicable by another Irish boxer, ever. On her journey into the annals of Irish boxing lore in Liverpool, the Castlerea boxer defeated Norway’s Sunniva Hofstad, the one boxer on the earth this yr to have received gold at each World Boxing Cup.
Exterior boxing, O’Rourke and her sister Lisa, turned ladies’s doubles Hyrox World Champions in April of 2025, and had been first ranked by age within the Hyrox Hamburg elite occasion in October.
The boxer is shortlisted alongside World biking champion, Ben Healy, Masters and Grand Slam champion golfer Rory McIlroy; World silver medalist Kate O’Connor; World rowing champion Fiona Murtagh, Champions League winner Katie McCabe, Kerry GAA’s David Clifford, mutiple World medalist, swimming’s Roisin Ni Riain; World & European biking champion, Lara Gillespie, European 3,000m indoor champion, Sarah Healy, double World gold medalist Orla Comerford and Eire soccer worldwide, Troy Parrott.
The winner can be topped on the RTÉ Sport Awards on Saturday, 20 December on RTE One at 8.05pm
