Limerick's Roisin Ní Riain named Para Swimmer of the Year Award winner

LIMERICK'S Roisin Ní Riain was honoured at the Swim Ireland awards as she was named Para Swimmer of the year after her incredible display at the Paralympic Games this year. The Drombanna native secured silver and bronze medals at the Paris games.

National Centre Limerick’s John Shortt won the Male Performance Pathway Athlete of the Year Award after becoming Ireland’s first ever male European Junior Champion, winning gold in the 200m Backstroke and silver in the 100m Backstroke in Lithuania in July.

Ní Riain’s National Centre Limerick Coach John Szaranek and Head Coach of Templeogue Swim Team and coach to Olympic finalist Ellen Walshe, Brian Sweeney, were jointly awarded the Performance Coach of the Year Award while Ards’ Curtis Coulter won the Performance Pathway Coach of the Year Award for his work with Grace Davison.

Elsewhere Daniel Wiffen won the Swimmer of the Year Award, after an incredible year, where he became Olympic Champion in the 800m Freestyle, Olympic bronze medallist in the 1500m Freestyle, double World Champion, triple European Short Course Champion and World Record Holder in the short course 800m Freestyle.

Passmore won the Diver of the Year Award for his performances at the World Championships in June and Olympic Games in July, he was also a finalist in the World Cup Super-Final in April.

Ellen Keane was inducted into the Swim Ireland Hall of Fame, recently retired Keane was honoured for an emphatic career that spanned five Paralympic Games.