Shortlist 2016

Shortlist 2016

Business Journalist:

• Tom Lyons – The Sunday Business Post
• Charlie Weston – Irish Independent
• Adrian Weckler – Sunday Independent/Irish Independent
• Michael O’Farrell – The Irish Mail on Sunday
• Colin Coyle – The Sunday Times
• Barry J Whyte – The Sunday Business Post

Business Story:

• Tom Lyons – The Sunday Business Post
• Fearghal O’Connor – The Sunday Business Post
• Adrian Weckler – Sunday Independent
• Colm Kelpie – Irish Independent
• Michael O’Farrell – The Irish Mail on Sunday
• Gavin Daly – The Sunday Times

Columnist Broadsheet:

• Dearbhail McDonald – Irish Independent
• Michael Clifford – Irish Examiner
• Justine McCarthy – The Sunday Times
• Fintan O’Toole – The Irish Times
• Ann Marie Hourihane – Ireland edition of The Times
• Gene Kerrigan – Sunday Independent

Columnist Popular:

• Paddy Murray – Sunday World
• Gerard Colleran – Irish Daily Star
• Pat Flanagan – Irish Daily Mirror
• Roslyn Dee – Irish Daily Mail
• Victoria White – The Herald
• David Diebold – The Herald

Crime Journalist:

• Robin Schiller – The Herald
• Ken Foy – The Herald
• Paul Williams – Irish Independent
• Alison O’Reilly – The Irish Mail on Sunday
• Nicola Tallant – Sunday World
• Emma McMenemy – Irish Mirror

Crime Story:

• Debbie McCann – The Irish Mail on Sunday
• Catherine Fegan – Irish Daily Mail
• Nicola Tallant – Sunday World
• Gareth MacNamee – Irish Daily Mirror
• Alan Sherry – Sunday World
• Paul Melia – Irish Independent

Critic:

• Patrick Freyne – The Irish Times
• Graeme Lennox – The Sunday Times
• Eoin Murphy – The Irish Mail on Sunday
• Paul Whittington – Irish Independent
• Colin Murphy – The Sunday Business Post
• Catherine Conroy – The Irish Times

Digital Innovation:

• The Irish Times – Election 2016
• The Irish Times – Remembering the 1916 Rising
• Independent News & Media – Euro 2016
• The Irish Times – Deaths on the Road
• Independent News & Media – Rent Report
• The Star – Buzz.ie

Features Popular:

• Catherine Fegan – Irish Daily Mail /The Irish Mail on Sunday
• Michael O’Toole – Irish Daily Star
• Patrick O’Connell – Sunday World
• Jenny Friel – Irish Daily Mail / The Irish Mail on Sunday
• Patrice Harrington – Irish Daily Mail
• Lynne Kelleher – Sunday World
• Elle Gordon – Sunday Independent

Features Broadsheet:

• Susan Mitchell – The Sunday Business Post
• Rosita Boland – The Irish Times
• Campbell Spray – Sunday Independent
• Barry J White – The Sunday Business Post
• Maeve Sheehan – Sunday Independent
• Tanya Sweeney – The Irish Times

Foreign Coverage:

• Derek Scally – The Irish Times
• Ruadhan MacCormaic – The Irish Times
• Mary Fitzgerald – Irish Independent
• Simon Carswell – The Irish Times
• Jason O’Brien – Irish Independent
• Fintan O’Toole – The Irish Times

Front Page:

Headline:

Investigative Journalism:

• Colm Keena – The Irish Times
• Jennifer Bray – Irish Daily Mail
• Peter Murtagh – The Irish Times
• Justine McCarthy & Colin Coyle – The Sunday Times
• Valerie Hanley & Michael O’Farrell – The Irish Mail on Sunday
• Patricia Devlin – Irish Daily Star

News Analysis:

• Catherine Shanahan – Irish Examiner
• Rosita Boland – The Irish Times
• Simon Carswell – The Irish Times
• Kieran Dineen – The Irish Sun
• Catherine Fegan – Irish Daily Mail / The Irish Mail on Sunday
• Fearghal O’Connor – The Sunday Business Post

News Reporter:

• Eugene Masterson – Sunday World
• Niamh Griffin – The Irish Mail on Sunday
• Catherine Fegan – Irish Daily Mail
• Dearbhail McDonald – Irish Independent
• Carl O’Brien – The Irish Times
• Patrick O’Connell – Irish Daily Star / Sunday World

Political Journalist:

• Ken Foxe – The Irish Mail on Sunday / The Sunday Times
• Fiach Kelly – The Irish Times
• Examiner Team – Irish Examiner
• Miriam Lord – The Irish Times
• Jody Corcoran – Sunday Independent
• Niall O’Connor – Irish Independent / Sunday Independent

Political Story:

• Niamh Horan – Sunday Independent
• Colin Coyle – The Sunday Times
• Daniel McConnell – Sunday Independent
• Dave Cochrane – The Irish Times
• Kieran Dineen – The Irish Sun
• Jody Corcoran – Sunday Independent

Scoop:

• Sunday World Crime Team – Sunday World
• Michael Clifford – Irish Examiner
• Catherine Fegan – Irish Daily Mail
• Colm Keena – The Irish Times
• Michael O’Farrell – The Irish Mail on Sunday
• Fearghal O’Connor – The Sunday Business Post
• The Herald Crime Team – The Herald
• Sean Dunne – Irish Daily Mail

Showbiz Journalist:

• Donal Lynch – Sunday Independent
• Eoin Murphy – The Irish Mail on Sunday
• Andrea Smith – Sunday Independent
• Laura Butler – Irish Daily Mail
• Melanie Finn – The Herald
• Niamh Walsh – The Irish Mail on Sunday
• Ken Sweeney – The Irish Sun

Showbiz Story:

• Maeve Quigley – Irish Daily Mirror
• Patricia Devlin – Irish Daily Star
• Des Gibson – Irish Daily Star
• Daragh Keany – Sunday World
• Eoin Murphy – Irish Daily Mail
• Mark O’Regan – Sunday Independent

Sport Story:

• Vincent Hogan – Irish Independent
• Roy Curtis – Sunday World
• Keith Falkiner – Irish Daily Star
• Barry J Whyte – The Sunday Business Post
• Kevin Palmer – Sunday World
• Graham Clifford – Irish Independent

Sports Writer:

• Ewan McKenna – The Sunday Business Post & Ireland edition of The Times
• Neil Francis – Sunday Independent
• Vincent Hogan – Irish Independent
• Denis Walsh – The Sunday Times
• Will Slattery – Irish Independent
• Kieran Cunningham – Irish Daily Star
• Malachy Clerkin – The Irish Times
• Shane McGrath – Irish Daily Mail / The Irish Mail on Sunday

Young Journalist:

• Laura Kennedy – The Irish Times
• Sean Dunne – Irish Daily Mail
• Adam Higgins – Irish Sun
• Paul Healy – Irish Daily Star
• Claire McCormack – Sunday Independent
• Denise Smith – Sunday World