Former two-time Olympian Danny McDaid will launch this year’s Donegal Sports Star Awards.
McDaid, who is still an integral part of Letterkenny AC even at 82 years of age, will help launch the awards on Monday night with things getting underway at 6pm at the Mount Errigal Hotel.
Awards Chairperson Grace Boyle said it was fitting that Danny McDaid should have the honour.
“Danny has done it all in athletics reaching the pinnacle of his career in the sport by representing Ireland at two Olympic Games and captaining the Irish Cross-Country team at nine World Championships. He has a very long and loyal association with the Donegal Sports Star Awards going back to the first ever function in the Milford Inn in 1976 when he won the athletics category.”
Danny McDaid said it was an honour to be asked to launch the awards. “I got an award the first time it was held in 1976 so it’s a great honour now to launch the awards for 2023. I did the presentations in 1984 when I stepped in for Maeve Kyles and then was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2011. It’s a great event and I have been to it every year except for the times I was away at athletics events.”
Danny is a former winner of the Donegal Sports Star Award in 1979, coming after two Olympics appearances in the 1970s.
