MANY OF OUR favourite athletes sashayed down the catwalk we like to call sports this past 12 months.

Here’s some of the most inspirational.

1. There was the time Keith Andrews looked like he liked in the apartment next to Jerry Seinfeld

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TV3 viewers were straight onto Arthur Murphy’s mailbox and/or Twitter.

2. Lar Corbett revealed the secret to his fashion success

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It’s his long-suffering mother doing his laundry and servicing a seemingly-effiecient training gear matrix up in the homeplace while he’s down the town opening bars.

3. Anna Geary tested Twitter’s servers in Southern California with her bikram yoga session clobber

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The Cork camogie star starred in Jacqui Hurley’s Skin In The Game.

4. Rebel dual star Eoin Cadogan channelled his inner Daniel Craig

This is basically what it looks like when I take a shower now I have the full length mirror. Extra marks for looking embarrassed, Cads.

5. Jurgen Klopp got a hair transplant

“Yes, it’s true. I underwent a hair transplant,” he said. “I think the results are really cool, don’t you?” Yes, Jurgen, Pretty cool.

6. Second Captains rugby hipster Simon Hick rocked the Sam Fox look too

7. The new additions to the Sunday Game panel took it up a level

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The fitted suits and sartorial flourishes from Eamonn O’Hara and Donal Óg Cusack  were the perfect counterpoint to the old school menswear of Michael Lyster.

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