Video: Rose captures hearts at the Spirit Awards

Little Garvagh girl Rose Doherty captured the hearts of guests at the star-studded Spirit of Northern Ireland awards recently when she picked up the U105 Young Persons Award from UTV’s Julian Simmons and boxer Carl ‘The Jackal’ Frampton.
By Steven Crawford
Published 10th Jun 2014, 12:27 BST
Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 30th May 2014 - Picture by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Spirit of Northern Ireland Awards at the Culloden Hotel Belfast. Winner - U105 Young Persons' Award -Rose Doherty, Carl Frampton + Julian Simmons and her mum OrlaPress Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 30th May 2014 - Picture by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Spirit of Northern Ireland Awards at the Culloden Hotel Belfast. Winner - U105 Young Persons' Award -Rose Doherty, Carl Frampton + Julian Simmons and her mum Orla
Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 30th May 2014 - Picture by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Spirit of Northern Ireland Awards at the Culloden Hotel Belfast. Winner - U105 Young Persons' Award -Rose Doherty, Carl Frampton + Julian Simmons and her mum Orla

Brave Rose faced a battle to save her life and rebuild her face when she was just six weeks old.

“We are so proud of her, just so, so proud of her,” her thrilled and tearful mum Orla said when her daughter was announced as the popular winner.

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“We are just absolutely blown away, we never expected to win at all.

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 30th May 2014 - Picture by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Spirit of Northern Ireland Awards at the Culloden Hotel Belfast. Winner - U105 Young Persons' Award -Rose Doherty, Carl Frampton + Julian Simmons and her mum OrlaPress Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 30th May 2014 - Picture by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Spirit of Northern Ireland Awards at the Culloden Hotel Belfast. Winner - U105 Young Persons' Award -Rose Doherty, Carl Frampton + Julian Simmons and her mum Orla
Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 30th May 2014 - Picture by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Spirit of Northern Ireland Awards at the Culloden Hotel Belfast. Winner - U105 Young Persons' Award -Rose Doherty, Carl Frampton + Julian Simmons and her mum Orla

“It’s mind blowing because it brought it all back to us and we weren’t expecting to relive it all and were so happy that the outcome has been so positive.”

The 15 finalists and their families were thrilled to meet and pose for pictures with a gallery of TV stars and sporting legends at the Culloden Hotel.

Mingling with the crowd were Corrie favourite ‘Big’ Jim McDonald actor Charlie Lawson, Emmerdale stars Dominic Brunt, who plays Paddy Kirk, Bashkar Patel aka Rishi Sharma and Michelle Hardwick who plays vet Vanessa Woodfield.

Also present was Coleraine actress Bronagh Waugh, who stars in The Fall.