RTE Sports Personality of the Year 2007

[slick]

RTE Sports Personality of the Year 2007 Book Closes 2 Aug 10:59

Padraig Harrington 1.07
Bernard Dunne 10.00
Brian O'Driscoll 11.00
Paul O'Connell 13.00
Ronan O'Gara 15.00
Harry Shefflin 23.00
Ken McGrath 26.00
Derval O'Rourke 26.00
Gordan D'Arcy 29.00
David Gillick 29.00
Darren Clarke 41.00
Paul McGinley 41.00
Colm Cooper 46.00
Sean Cavanagh 46.00
Aidan O'Brien 51.00
Ruby Walsh 51.00
Jim Bolger 56.00
Jessica Kuerten 61.00
Alan Brogan 61.00
Kevin Doyle 61.00
Noel Meade 67.00
Robbie Keane 67.00

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I'm not Irish but after the Open win by Harrington i suppose this is done and dusted as the odds suggest am i not right?

[stereoman]

Can't disagree.

It'd probably have to take something like Ireland winning the Rugby Union World Cup but an Irishman winning The Open is almost as good as it gets for Irish sporting glory on the international front for this year. I don't think even if it was an Olympic year (I know it isn't, I'm just saying!) and an Irish person happened to win a gold medal that anyone could challenge Padraig for favouritism.

I'm pretty sure that RTE have retained the six-member jury vote rather than a public vote as I've said elsewhere so I'd be wary of any bias to Gaelic football like what happened last year when the emotional appeal was to give Darren Clarke the BBC and RTE awards (Darren pretty much scuppered his own chances by publically stating he didn't want to win and coupled with the Sunday tabloids revealing that he romanced another woman shortly after the death of his wife which might have lost him much of the sympathy vote that was supposed to propel him to win BBC's SPotY).