Double medal winning cyclists Eoghan Clifford and Katie-George Dunlevy were both winners as they claimed the Outstanding Male and Female Awards respectively.

Clifford claimed the gold medal in the men's C3 road time trial and also won bronze in the men's C3 indiviudal pursuit.

Dunlevy, alongside visual aid Eve McCrystal, was victorious in the B category women's time trial and also collected a silver medal in the B category road race.

Cork teenager Noelle Lenihan, winner of the F37/38 discus bronze medal at Rio 2016, was named the Young Paralympian of the Games and Niamh McCarthy was awarded the Outstanding Games Debut Performance prize for her F41 discus silver.

There was a rousing reception from those in attendances as double Paralympian swimmer James Scully was named the Outstanding Team Member for an athlete of the Games.

Scully did not win a medal but mashed his personal best to finish sixth in the final of the men's S5 200m freestyle.

Turning at the halfway mark in seventh, the Meath swimmer finished strongly to clock a time of 2min 51.45sec.

Renowned chief medical officer Joe Conway received a similar reception when he was named as Outstanding Team Member for a non-athlete.

Three Merit Awards were also handed out on the night.

Gary MacManus, the Irish team attache at the London 2012 Games, was given the President’s Award for his contribution to the Paralympic Movement.

Six-time table tennis Paralympic medallist Angela Hendra was awarded the Irish Paralympic Order, while handcycling double gold medallist from London 2012 Mark Rohan was inducted into the Irish Paralympic Hall of Fame.

Just as the night was coming to a close, Paralympic silver medallist Orla Barry was presented with her upgraded silver medal from the 2015 International Paralympic Committee World Championships in Doha.

In June it was announced that the discus thrower had been upgraded from bronze to silver following a doping violation by the original silver medallist, Bulgaria’s Stela Eneva.

Rio 2016 Chef de Mission Denis Toomey presented Barry with her new medal.

A host of media awards were also presented with RTE TV Sport  winning for Best TV Coverage and their colleagues in RTE Sport Online claiming Best Digital Coverage.

John O’Sullivan of The Irish Times was awarded the Best Written Coverage, while Oisín Langan of Newstalk Radio took the Best Radio Coverage accolade.

In the weeks preceding the awards, an online vote was held to select an Image of the Games.

Diarmuid Greene’s standout image of the moment Dunlevy and McCrystal won time trial gold was the winner.