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DESPITE representing Tyrone on the biggest stage as a Gaelic footballer and winning countless races during an impressive athletics career, Seanie Meyler laughs at the notion that a ‘run in his garden shed’ has helped land him his most prestigious individual honour.
On Wednesday evening the 54-year old Omagh man was announced as the Overall Winner of the 2020 Ulster Herald Sports Personality of the Year Award, held in association with MFC Sports.
In a short acceptance speech posted on the Herald social media platforms after he was named as the recipient of the top prize in our online video presentation, Seanie thanked those who had given him his backing.
“A big thank you to the Ulster Herald for continuing to organise their Sports Personality Awards and to MFC the sponsors,” he said.
“From a personal point of view I want to really thank the voters who backed me. I am really over the moon and humbled to be selected as the overall winner. All twelve of us (monthly nominees) were worthy recipients and everyone in their own field had a fantastic year.”
It was back last April, just weeks into the initial lockdown brought about as a result of the Covid outbreak, that Seanie ran a full 26.2 marathon within the claustrophobic confines of his garden shed at home on his treadmill to raise much needed funds for the nursing staff’s Comfort Fund at the South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen.
It was a cause close to Seanie’s heart with his wife Paula a member of the nursing staff seconded to the Intensive Care Unit at SWAH.
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