{"id":201191,"date":"2025-12-20T02:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T02:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/201191\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T02:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T02:23:12","slug":"dundalks-oconnor-wins-irish-times-sport-ireland-sportswoman-of-the-year-2025-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/201191\/","title":{"rendered":"Dundalk&#8217;s O&#8217;Connor wins Irish Times\/Sport Ireland Sportswoman of the Year 2025 award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate O\u2019Connor has finished an exceptional season by being named\u00a0the 2025 Irish Times\/Sport Ireland Sportswoman of the Year at the awards ceremony at the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dundalkdemocrat.ie\/section\/112\/sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dundalkdemocrat.ie\/section\/112\/sport\">Dundalk<\/a>-based athlete has won medals at all four major championships that she competed in 2025. Her standout moment came at the World Championships in Tokyo, where she won silver in the heptathlon.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dundalkdemocrat.ie\/news\/louth-sport\/1970882\/county-louth-golf-clubs-grehan-wins-2025-mens-amateur-of-the-year-award.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dundalkdemocrat.ie\/news\/louth-sport\/1970882\/county-louth-golf-clubs-grehan-wins-2025-mens-amateur-of-the-year-award.html\">County Louth Golf Club\u2019s Grehan wins 2025 Men\u2019s Amateur of the Year award<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That performance made her the first Irish athlete to win a senior outdoor multi-event medal and only the sixth Irish athlete ever to medal at an outdoor World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connor told BBC: \u201cMy ultimate goal is to get to the Olympics and to be on the podium and try to win a gold medal. I think if you\u2019re not imagining yourself doing that, you\u2019re never going to get it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to work really hard until I get there. I fully believe that I can do it. Although I did great things this year, I know there is so much more there. I\u2019m just going to continue building and see what else I can do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kate O\u2019Connor has finished an exceptional season by being named\u00a0the 2025 Irish Times\/Sport Ireland Sportswoman of the Year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,106429,43],"class_list":["post-201191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kate-oconnor","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}