MARTIN O’NEILL and Roy Keane are set to attend the 2016 Irish Post Awards where the former will accept an award for his Outstanding Contribution to the Sports Industry.
O’Neill, originally from Kilrea in Derry, is the current manager of the Republic of Ireland football team.
After starting his career in Northern Ireland, he moved to England where he spent most of his playing career with Nottingham Forest, with whom he won the European Cup in 1979 and 1980.
He was capped 64 times for the Northern Ireland football team. He went on to manage, amongst others, Leicester City, Celtic, Sunderland and Aston Villa. He took over as manager of the Republic of Ireland Football team in November 2013.
The Irish Post Awards is an annual gala dinner and awards evening hosted by The Irish Post, the biggest selling newspaper and daily news site for the Irish in Britain.
The annual event will be held at The Great Room at the Grosvenor House on Park Lane on Friday, November 25, and will see over 1,000 guests come together to celebrate the many successes of the Irish in Britain across a range of industries.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan will deliver the Keynote Speech on the evening and Eamonn Holmes will once again act as the Master of Ceremonies.
Last year, Calum Best attended to accept the Outstanding Contribution to Sports Award posthumously awarded to his late father George Best.
Award winning actress Fionnula Flanagan received the Award for her Outstanding Contribution to the Film & Television Industry and Louis Walsh received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to the Entertainment Industry throughout his career.
For further information on the event, visit www.theirishpostawards.com or contact Sarah Murphy at [email protected] or on 0044 (0) 20 8900 4159.
