{"id":18579,"date":"2025-12-22T14:33:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/rory-mcilroy-wins-bbc-ni-sports-personality-of-the-year-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T14:33:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:33:56","slug":"rory-mcilroy-wins-bbc-ni-sports-personality-of-the-year-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/rory-mcilroy-wins-bbc-ni-sports-personality-of-the-year-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy wins BBC NI Sports Personality of the Year 2025."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_11718ea162f22b2f\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-live=\"polite\" aria-busy=\"false\">\n<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">McIlroy Praises Support from People of Northern Ireland<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">In a review of his achievement-filled year, global player Rory McIlroy specifically noted the warmth and acceptance he received during the Open Championship held at Royal Portrush last July, where he finished in a tie for seventh place.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">&#8220;I will never forget the reception I received at Portrush this year, even if I wasn&#8217;t able to win the Open,&#8221; McIlroy stated.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">&#8220;The support I receive from my home country is a feeling that cannot be described, and so I would like to say thank you to every person in Northern Ireland for their support and belief in me, and for being with me on this journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">&#8220;It feels to me as if everyone has watched me grow up, and watched with me the highlights and the lowlights by my side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">McIlroy added: &#8220;Home is always home, and it always will be; it is the place that shaped my character. When I go back home, it is the place where I feel completely at ease.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t get back home as often as I would like, but I feel like I bring Northern Ireland with me wherever I go, and when I return home, there is a sense of belonging that I don&#8217;t feel anywhere else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">Participating in the judging panel that decided the player&#8217;s award were Patrick McConville, winner of the All-Ireland Gaelic Football Championship; four-time Paralympic medalist Michael McKillop; Northern Ireland women&#8217;s football record appearance holder Julie Nelson; Ireland hockey record cap holder Shirley McCay; BBC Radio Executive Editor Paul Martin; and BBC Radio News Editor Thomas Kane.<\/p>\n<p>United News Network \u2013 UNN Arabic<\/p>\n<p>An independent media platform providing reliable news and objective analysis, seeking to promote peace and cultural dialogue around the world, to convey the truth and build bridges of understanding between peoples.<\/p>\n<p>For more news, you can visit our homepage:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"rLmtFd2Xhq\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/\">Home<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Home&#8221; &#8212; \u0634\u0628\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062a\u062d\u062f\u0629 \u2013 UNN \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629\" src=\"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/embed\/#?secret=QNNCISAsdr#?secret=rLmtFd2Xhq\" data-secret=\"rLmtFd2Xhq\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McIlroy Praises Support from People of Northern Ireland In a review of his achievement-filled year, global player Rory McIlroy specifically noted the warmth and acceptance he received during the Open Championship held at Royal Portrush last July, where he finished in a tie for seventh place. &#8220;I will never forget the reception I received at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}