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# SPOTY 2016

All time
'I've got a bone to pick with my wife because she voted for Nick Skelton': Murray wins SPOTY
Sports Person of the Year 2016: Why Conor McGregor deserves his place on the shortlist
Sports Person of the Year 2016: Why Denise Gaule deserves her place on the shortlist
Sports Person of the Year 2016: Why Jamie Heaslip deserves his place on the shortlist
Sports Person of the Year 2016: Why Carl Frampton deserves his place on the shortlist
Sports Person of the Year 2016: Why Bríd Stack deserves her place on the shortlist
Sports Person of the Year 2016: Why Daryl Horgan deserves his place on the shortlist
Sports Person of the Year 2016: Why Seamus Callanan deserves his place on the shortlist
Sports Person of the Year 2016: Why Katie-George Dunlevy & Eve McCrystal deserve their nomination
Sports Person of the Year 2016: Why Paul O'Donovan deserves his place on the shortlist