Conor Murray has been nominated for RTÉ’s sportsperson of the year award

Murray’s superb 2017 could be capped off with the individual award

Conor Murray has been nominated for the RTÉ Sports awards Sportsperson of the year award following a stelar year with Munster, Ireland and the British and Irish Lions.

The scrum half starred in the Lions series draw with the All Blacks and scored a fourth try against them at test level, becoming the first Northern Hemisphere player to ever accomplish the feat.

Murray is nominated alongside 14 other athletes across a range of sports with the winner being announced live on RTÉ 1 at 9:15pm on Saturday 16 December.

You can have your say who takes home the award with public voting now open. Just click this link to vote.

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