It's that time of year again, time to nominate the Fingal sports star of the year.

January

Robbie Jenkinson

SKERRIES Community College claimed the prestigious Duff Cup for the first time in 10 years with a belated triumph over East Glendalough in January. Skerries were the inaugural winners of the competition in 2000 and repeated that success in 2010 - albeit in the early stages of 2011. In what was an all-round heroic effort from the Skerries boys, Robbie Jenkinson played his captain's role to perfection from start to finish, scoring a valuable penalty.

February

Mike Sherlock

IT was a superb couple of months for Skerries rugby and Mike Sherlock played a major role when he made his Ireland U-20 debut against France in Athlone. Playing at full back Sherlock did his burgeoning reputation no harm with a composed display and he still has another year to look forward to at this grade. The former Skerries RFC man currently plies his trade with Clontarf and helped the club's U-21s to an All-ireland semi-final in early April.

March

John Mooney

IT'S been an amazing year for Irish cricket and John Mooney was there every step of the way. Against all the odds, the boys in green pulled off one of the greatest feats in Irish sporting history, by beating England at the ICC World Cup. Mooney starred with both bat and ball in the famous victory. In fact, it was the Rush run machine who sealed the victory with five balls to spare, his sixth boundary taking him to 34 not out off only 34 balls.

April

Adam Foley

GLEBE North winger Adam Foley made history in early April, winning his first amateur international cap for Ireland against Northern Ireland - topping off the achievement with a wonderful goal in the dying seconds to help his team to a 2-0 win. Foley certainly made his mark, coming on at half-time when the game was scoreless, and smashing a superb finish past the 'keeper from 22 yards. And it got even as Glebe's magnificent season of cup runs saw them crowned Charlie Cahill Cup champions in May.

May

Dara Armstrong

RUSH native Dara Armstrong set a new mark in Leinster cricket in May, making history for the number of dismissals by a wicketkeeper. During a cup match for North County against Terenure, Dara took a catch behind the stumps to make it 509 career 'victims' since first playing league cricket in 1991, surpassing the old record held by Charlie Kavanagh. Some 433 batsmen have been 'caught behind' and the remaining 76 stumped.

June

Gary O'brien

DREAMS came true when Portmarnock man Gary O'brien crossed the 400m run finish line and threw his hands in the air to celebrate his silver medal at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens, Greece in July. The 22-year-old stood smiling and waving proudly at the cheering crowd, when he finished the 400m run in a little over a minute, a new personal best for the Fingal athlete, securing the silver medal of his dreams.

July

Keith Costello

July didn't start off too well for Skerries rider Keith Costello, when he failed to finish his local course in Skerries, but that was his only failure for the rest of the season, as he powered to wins in Walderstown, Kells, Athea and Armoy, where he broke the course lap record by almost three miles per hour in a race that saw the talented Skerries man finish July as Irish Championship leader. It was a lead he never lost and Keith also won the Southern Centre 350 Classic Championship to go with his coveted Irish title.

August

Lynne Cantwell

RECORD cap-holder Lynne Cantwell made another piece of history in August when she became the first-ever female recipient of a Guinness Rugby Writers of Ireland (RWI) Award. The women's game hadn't previously been acknowledged in this way, and Rolestown girl Lynne was quite rightly delighted with the prestigious honour. Lynne earned her award for a great contribution towards Ireland's third place in this year's Six Nations Championship.

September

Paul Flynn

Dublin's All-ireland drought had to end sometime and the Fingal area did more than its fair share with Bryan Cullen captaining the side, Darren Daly proving an important squad member and Paul Flynn playing a starring role throughout the campaign. Fingallians man Flynn even carried an injury into the final with Kerry, but still produced a typical all-action display and his season's efforts were rewarded when he was named on the Opel GAA/GPA All-star team of the year, alongside six of his team mates.

October

Helen White

Mountain Running may not be the best known sport in the world, but it's certainly one of the toughest. Experienced athlete, Helen White, fell into the gruelling sport by accident, but she leaves nothing to chance in preparing for big events and that singleminded determination paid off handsomely in October when she scooped a bronze medal at the World Masters Championships in Pulazza, Italy. The mum-of-three won the silver medal twelve months previously at an equally tough course in Barcelona.

November

Bryan Cullen

Bryan Cullen became the first Dub to lift Sam Maguire since another Fingal native - John O'leary - way back in 1995, as the Sky Blues finally brought their All-ireland drought to an end at Croke Park in September. But Cullen's season didn't end there and over the next two months the utility man helped Skerries Harps back into the big time with a long-awaited Dublin Intermediate Championship success, seeing off Cuala in the final at Parnell Park.

December

Martyn Irvine

Walshestown resident Martyn Irvine continued his push for an Olympic Track Cycling qualifying slot with a superb fifth place finish in a World Cup race in Cali, Colombia, which moved him from 11th to ninth in the world standings. The Belfast born cyclist - who is engaged to Swords CC member, Grace Mcnally - is now just outside the qualification zone. The seven-time Irish track champion has enjoyed a superb year, clinching a solo stage win in the FBD Ras na heireann in May.

Wild Card

Caolan Kennedy

Caolan Kennedy secured the Connacht U-15 Boys Amateur Open in June. At a wonderfully presented Oughterard Golf Club, the Forrest Little golfer produced a pair of 36s on the inward and outward 9s of the Par 70 to secure a 1-stroke winning margin over Ballina's Jonathan Doherty. He also won his age group at an exclusive Darren Clarke invitational clinic in Portmarnock and was a narrow second in the Leinster Order of Merit.

Wild Card

Cian Delaney

While the rest of the nation was being gripped by the exploits of the Irish rugby team, Ballyboughal had its eyes on a lesser known sport where a local hero was bringing home a bronze medal for his country. Cian Delaney has made a meteoric rise in the world of the Duathlon and is now a bronze medal winner at World Championship level after a magnificent performance in Gijon, Spain. Already a silver medal winner at European level, the Ballyboughal man took to the podium for a world bronze.

Wild Card

Ciaran Donnelly

Ciaran made the decision at the start of the season to concentrate on the Junior Support Irish Championship and this turned out to be a wise decision for the 24 year old Skerries rider. During the season Ciaran won five Championship races, taking two lap records in the process. With the Irish Championship still to be decided by appeal, Ciaran won the 125 & 250 Southern Centre Championships, the Ulster Centre Junior Support Championship, and was joint winner in the Loughshinny Club Championship.

Wild Card

Robbie Carr

Balscadden teenager Robbie Carr rose to the top in powerlifting circles at the World Drug-free Championships in Glasgow in November. Barely a year after taking up the sport, Robbie can now call himself a world champion, after he performed beyond his wildest dreams to finish top of the pile in the Under-19 82.5kg category. Robbie squatted 170kg, benched 100kg and deadlifted 220kg for a mind-boggling aggregate of 490kg - some 30kg ahead of his nearest challenger.