The Sports Woman of the Year Award

Gráinne Murphy is the 2010 winner

Gráinne Murphy with her Irish Times/Irish Sports Council Sportswoman of the Year Award at the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin yesterday. 'It was an honour to even be included as a finalist with women such as Derval O'Rourke, Katie Taylor, Madeline Perry and Katie Walsh,' she said after the ceremony. – (Photograph: Lorraine O'Sullivan/Inpho).

Another first for Murphy YESTERDAY WAS all about achievement, nothing else. And the good news is that this is probably just the beginning. Still a teenager, Gráinne Murphy added another prize to her glittering collection of European medals when she won The Irish Times /Irish Sports Council Sportswoman of the Year award.
Hanafin says athletes an inspiration to us all MINISTER FOR Tourism, Culture and Sport, Mary Hanafin spoke of "the huge personal sacrifices" Ireland's top women athletes have to make to gain recognition at national and international level at the The Irish Times /Irish Sports Council Sportswoman of the Year awards .