The impressive mantelpiece round our house after the Choice Prize and Blog Award wins.
Super fun times last night at the 3rd annual blog awards where I won Best Music Blog for the second year running. I’ve come to realise I’m quite a humble fellah so I didn’t think it would happen. Luckily, the backlash has yet to set in! Major props to Aoife who was also nominated in the Music category and who I FORGOT TO THANK for being the voice of the nialler9 Podcast. Gah! Soz love but at least your gun is tres cool! Also Johnny from DownloadMusic.ie for sponsoring the award. I must echo last night’s sentiments about diversity in the Irish blogosphere, there are now so many blogs around each category that I was unaware of many of them. I’m particularly impressed by the Food blogs who are doing great (and mouthwatering) things with the medium like Little Bird Eats and The Humble Housewife, both who I met last night and were lovely.
Also allow me to give some shoutouts (hold your breath) to : Ailbhe (and her fancy attire) and Bren from Analogue, Darragh, Loreana, John Cav and Ronan, Andy, Phil, Annie, the brilliant Sweary (who remains robbed of an award as yet), blogging overlord Twenty Major, Una, Shinpads (three in a year, well done!), Rick (sterling work sir), Derek, Shane Hegarty, Cillian, Stuart Bailie (who was telling me about the Oh Yeah Centre in Belfast), Ken Stanley, Ken McGuire, Ray, Sabrina, Stu, Eolaí (superb to meet him), Manuel, Eddie, Rymus and his sneaky camera, Lili, Corina, Kieran, Suzy, Colm and all the others I met who I can’t remember, sorry but do leave a comment if you see this.
It was smiles all round and everyone was ridiculously nice so I think we need to instigate a blog war for next year to replace the back-slapping with some back-stabbing. Or maybe not. Also, I’d like to see more music bloggers there next year so I can finally meet them: You know who you are..
Absolutely reserved, special thanks and praise to Damien and the Awards team for the superb superb organisation. Damien, I meant to buy you a drink but you were swamped with gin and tequila so hope you survived that!
Full list of winners below:
Blog Awards 2008 Winners
Best Popculture Blog – Sponsored by Weeno.ie
DZ-015 by Rick O’Shea
Best Blog from a Journalist – Redfly Marketing
Present Tense – Shane Hegarty
Best Food/Drink Blog
Italian Foodies
Best Crafts Blog – thisisknit.ie
A Simple Yarn
Best Arts and Culture Blog – Poetry Ireland
The Sigla Blog
Best Political Blog – Revolution
Irish Election
Best Group Blog – SalesJobs.ie
Beaut.ie
Best Use of the Irish Language in a Blog – Edgecast
Blag Ghael gan Náire
Best Technology Blog/Blogger – Bitbuzz
Robin Blandford’s ByteSurgery
Best Designed Blog – Buckley
Sabrina Dent
Best Sport & Recreation Blog – Boards.ie
Arseblog
Best News/Current Affairs Blog
Joint winners
The Limerick Blogger
and
Maman Poulet
Best Specialist Blog – IQ Content
The Voyage
Best Newcomer – Edelman
John Braine
Best Business Blog – FirstPartners
Ice Cream Ireland
Best Music Blog – DownloadMusic.ie
nialler9
Special Recognition Award
Simon McGarr from Tuppenceworth.ie and Ryan from Rymus
Best Personal Blog – Microsoft
Joint Winners
Grannymar
And
Head Rambles
Most Humorous Post – Glandore
Twenty Major – Tonight’s Debate
Best Photo Blog – Pix.ie
Gingerpixel
Best Blog Post – LouderVoice
Fatmammycat.com – Fox hunting, horses and a girl’s awakening
Best Blog – Putplace
Twenty Major
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
Shinpads? I’m liking it. I might look into changing my name by deed poll.
Also lists of folk like the one above make me realise who I missed bumping into. Damn it.
Well deserved on your double, that’s a fine looking mantel piece. I especially like the little brown dude in the bottom left corner.
Whoop! Congrats to you, well deserved.
I’m probably never going to forgive you for not thanking me though.
congrats m’boy, well fucking deserved
😀
a good week for newbridge exports it would seem
King of the Boggers!
You heard me!
Well done Niall, shame I couldn’t make it.
Well done dude! good luck with the mag this week looking forward to it
Nice one bruv!
Congrats Niall – hope this makes up for the disappointment of not winning an oscar this year.
Well done.
We(3 of us) were there alright but there is only so much networking you can do on an empty stomach so we left afterwards to grab something to eat. We thought we would be returning to a full on 80s night but it was all pretty quiet when we got back after midnight. Anyhow another time..
Nice to catch up with you again good sir… three in a row next year? Ah go on..!
Good to meet ya fella, best of luck with the new thingy n all that……if you are ever up this way gimme a shout….
There should be a category at next year’s Blog Awards for Best Commenter on Blogs. Mumblin’ Deaf Ro would totally win it.
Congratulations Niall! Gonna make it a hat trick next year? Lovely to meet both you and Aoife last night 🙂
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There used to be a best commenter award way back in the echelons of time… 🙂
hats off to ya Niall. congratulations on a well deserved “You Win Again”!! I hear the BeeGees singing!!
keep up the good work
🙂
Congrats! May the mantlepiece overflow!
Great stuff Niall! Well deserved, nice meeting you too!
Congrats! maybe I’ll make it next year…
Nialler, congratulations – it’s well-deserved. I know people here in Paris who have no links to/idea of Ireland but still discovered your site and read it regularly. Do you qualify for the Bloggers Champions League now? ;D
(football-related point: surely to God you don’t really have a poster of Peter Crouch over your mantelpiece???)
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Of course we do he’s an giraffe-like elephantine genius of major proportions. the lanky swine.
Gwan ya little legend, I don’t see how you couldn’t have won with the way things are goin’, KING OF THE BLOGGERS! I got a hug all lined up for the next time I see ya.
I’m very pleased that my fantastic outfit has been blogged for posterity. You’re a gentleman. A gentleman.
you sir, are a ledge… well done on all your recent achievements! Don’t stop now
biggles!
If it’s war you want, war you’ll get…I have instigated investigations into a murky-secret-dossier of the Kniall In Typing Armour. You’ll wish you’d never bought those ferrets…
Congrazz@u!
nice one pal
c
This time I made sure to save this to my del.icio.us links. Not much on the USA blog front. Won’t someone tell me if tecktonik has arrived in England.
Sorry, I must go to bed. I meant Ireland.
Congrats, man…
Oh, and I meant to say, thanks for being my primary source for finding out about new music.
good stuff nialler9.
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viva el croucho! will ya just look at the size of him? ma, can we take him home, pleeease?
Congrats Niall, Great Blog…well deserved.
Well done dude, no doubting an utterly deserved award. (>.<)
Congrats again Niall.
Congrats on your win! Fair play.
Lovely to meet you too Niall and congratulations, well deserved! 😉
i am soooo proud of you bear!! you big cudlly blogger you!!!! what a blooming week eh? im still in shock over the lads, and then you do it, FOR THE SECOND TIME!!!!!holy moses. theres something in the water in terenure!!!xoxoxoxoxoxo
I’m fucking gutted. I’ve been engaging in self harm over the weekend so this is a bit difficult to type. I’m totally snapping that I went to the bother of sacrificing my new born son in the belief that it would help bring the ‘Best Music Blog’ home to Chez Vinyl. I sometimes wonder why I bother at all?
Oh yeah. Well done!
Matt
Congrats and kildare4sam and indie was robbed!
(P.S I notice that photo was cleverly cropped to leave my trophy out. Makes sense though, wouldn’t want to show you and the boners up on yissers big week)
respect niall , well done , much deserved , most excelling. you make the plains proud .
Congratulations Niall – I’d love to have been there, but I was getting drunk here in Berlin instead, which was a pretty nice alternative. Nice mantelpiece 🙂
well done dude! See ya this eve probbers.
congrats niall, well deserved, need more daniel o donnell & louise morrisey coverage for next year tho, crouch should be singing by then too
Great stuff Niall
Nifty!
Well done 🙂
Looking forward to State!!