Mullingar Park Hotel Sports Stars of the month to be revealed

With six months of the year elapsed, the sporting achievements of some of the county"s best sportsmen and women will be recognised with the announcement next week of the six monthly award winners in the Mullingar Park Hotel/Westmeath Examiner Sports Stars Awards 2008. Already, two of the town"s Beijing bound Olympics, marathon man, Martin Fagan and boxer, John Joe Nevin have been unveiled as the winners of the January and February awards respectively and the subsequent selection of John John Joyce for next month"s Olympics puts him strongly in the running for one of the awards.Of course, there are a host of other splendid sportspeople who have been having outstanding years in their chosen fields and the judges will have a difficult time in choosing some of the monthly winners.In its inaugural year, the Mullingar Park Hotel/Westmeath Examiner Sports Stars awards night lastFebruary proved to be an outstanding success and was a thoroughly sporting and social occasion, which was compered by RTE"s Colm Murray.Already plans are well advanced for the staging of the 2008 event, which will take place once again in the marvellous ambience of the Mullingar Park Hotel. The event will take place on Friday, January 30 when a packed audience will once again salute the achievements of the cream of the county"s sportsmen and women.