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05 Sept 2025

Donegal Sports Star awards banquet now sold out

With 500 tickets booked, the January 31 event featuring David Gillick as a special guest reaches its capacity, prompting a waiting list for returns

Donegal Sports Star awards banquet now sold out

Boxing stalwart Peter O’Donnell who launched the 2024 Donegal Sports Star Awards earlier this week in the Mount Errigal Hotel

The Donegal Sports Star Committee has confirmed that their Awards function is now officially sold.  

There are no more tickets available for the banquet on Friday, January 31 in the Mount Errigal Hotel.

With 500 tickets booked, the Committee has reached capacity for this event featuring former Irish athletic star David Gillick as the special guest.

There is now a waiting list so anyone with spare tickets is asked to return them as soon as possible to the Mount Errigal Hotel which is the sole booking outlet in order that they can be redistributed.

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The awards were launched by boxing stalwart Peter O’Donnell on Monday night in the Mount Errigal Hotel. 

O’Donnell, who has regularly supported the event and won awards on multiple occasions, was delighted to accept the honour. 

A widely known boxing man in the county and throughout the country, he won the Team Manager of the Year in 2015 after a good medal haul from Irish Boxers at the European Elite Men’s Championship in Samokov, Bulgaria. 

And for his constant work with the Boxing community, he also won an appreciation award in 2012. 

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