Later today Nissan will launch the search for the next wave of ambassadors in the Generation Next programme that has been a big winner for the brand over the past two years.
Sport swept the boards last year providing six of the ten winners in a national competition that combined application and then a social media vote.
Hundreds of young leaders from fields of business, the arts, sport and social entrepreneurship were nominated and this list was reduced to a shortlist of 20 before going to the public vote.
“We are overwhelmed by the interest in last year’s programme. We had a very difficult task to select a shortlist of 20 candidates and their success in attracting over 69,000 votes is a fantastic public endorsement of what Nissan Generation Next is all about,” said James McCarthy, CEO of Nissan Ireland.
Lucan canoeing star Jenny Egan (28) topped the poll with 9,297 votes to drive away with a Nissan Qashqai for the year.
“I was delighted to receive such fantastic public support and to drive away with my new Nissan Qashqai,” she said.
The five other sporting winners from last year were Rowers Paul O’Donovan and Monica Dukarska, GAA star Alan Cadogan, sprinter Catherine McManus and Modern Pentathlete Arthur Lanigan-O’Keefe.
The winners from other walks of life included Gareth Sheridan and Paul Campbell who have established their own businesses in health and photography in Dublin and Ciara Judge, Emer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Throw from Kinsale who won the 2013 BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition Grand Prize.
Read all about the 2016 competition later today and in tomorrow morning’s Sport for Business Daily News Digest.
