The first athlete from Northern Ireland to compete in the Winter Paralympics, Gallagher won Britain’s first Winter Paralympic Gold for skiing during Sochi 2014.

Gallagher is severely visually impaired and uses a sighted guide, Charlotte Evans.

After turning professional in 1991, Dublin-born McGinley won the World Cup of Golf for Ireland six years later with Pádraig Harrington.

McGinley made three victorious Ryder Cup appearances in 2002, 2004 and 2006 before guiding the European team to victory as captain in 2014.

Harte was awarded an honorary Doctorate for services to Gaelic football in 2006.

The current — and most successful — Gaelic football manager of the Tyrone senior inter-county team, he has led Tyrone to three All-Ireland titles, four Ulster titles, one National League, and nine Dr. McKenna Cups.

A middle distance runner with a specialism in the 800 and 1500 metres events, Holmes won Gold for both at the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

She set British records in numerous events and still holds the records over the 600, 800, 1000, and 1500 metres distances. In 2005, she won the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year.

Winner of Gold in the women’s pentathlon at the 1972 Summer Olympics, Dame Mary was also known in her athletics career for her prowess in the shot put.

On top of her success in Munich, she also won four medals – three gold, one silver - for Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games, in her sixteen-year career.

One of Northern Ireland’s greatest sportsmen, Best was honoured in December 2001.

He played over 400 times for Manchester United and is widely regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time.

A native of Ballymena, McKillop is a middle distance runner and Paralympic athlete.

Amongst his achievements are winning Gold in the T37 800m at both the 2008 and 2012 Paralympics, in world record time, and in the 1500m T37 race at the 2012 Games.

Having lost his sight at the age of 22, Pollock became the first blind man to race to the South Pole in 2009.

An adventurer, athlete, Commonwealth medal-winning rower, author and motivational speaker, Pollock has worked extensively towards overcoming his disabilities and helping others to do the same after being paralysed from the waist down by an accident in 2010.