The Person of the Year
Award Recipient
At the GALAS ceremony in Dublin’s Mansion House, as Managing Editor of GCN, Lisa Connell, stood on stage and began to read the introduction to the Person of the Year Award, scanned the crowds, trying to find Evgeny Shtorn’s table.
Working for GCN, obviously had insider knowledge on who the recipients of the awards would be before the results were read aloud by the glittering co-hosts, Anne Doyle and James Kavanagh. But while the vast majority of nominees assembled had advance warning to get gussied-up and spend some time preparing a little speech just in case they would be taking a trip to the podium, the Person of the Year didn’t have a clue.