EDIT: Some clarification is needed. This offer is open to the Short List Nominees as pointed to by the below link. Apologies for any confusion.

Michele Neylon via Blacknight is offering a years blog hosting and free domain name for any/all of the nominees. If you want to avail of this offer then send me an email -> irishawards [a t] gmail dot com.

If anyone else wants to give some love to the nominees(via free stuff) then let me know or blog about it.

Gilles Klein has given the Irish Blog Awards a mention on PointBlog.com. Merci Gilles. I wish I could say more in French other than that. Perhaps some of the multi-lingual bloggers could leave a comment over on PointBlog.

Dave Walsh wins the second of the O2 i-mode phones. Congratulations Dave. Details on how to collect the phone have been emailed to you.

Everyone nominated in the long list for a blog award is now going to be entered into another draw for an 02 i-mode phone. I have another to give away now and so why not randomly select one of the long list nominees? It was honestly a shame to have a cut-off point in so many of the categories but a short list was needed. I’ll edit this post later with a list of all blogs entered in the draw. The winner will be announced on Monday, so tune into this blog then.

EDIT: Here are all the nominated blogs

http://mamanpoulet.blogspot.com
http://fdelondras.blogspot.com/
http://www.twentymajor.blogspot.com

http://www.sarahcarey.ie/
http://www.mneylon.com/blog/
http://irish.typepad.com/
http://siciliannotes.blogspot.com/
http://aliveinlimerick.blogspot.com/
http://backseatdrivers.blogspot.com/
http://gaskinbalrog.blogspot.com/

http://blather.net/snackboxdiaries/

http://disillusionedlefty.blogspot.com/
http://unitedirelander.blogspot.com
http://thegear.blogspot.com/
http://www.runningwithbulls.com/
http://www.youngunionists.org.uk
http://www.tcal.net
http://babblogue.com/blog/
http://lettertoamerica.blogs.com
http://redmum.blogspot.com/

http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/
http://www.fustar.org/
http://dundealgan.blogspot.com/
http://neuro.antidisinformation.com/blog/
http://caoimheb.blogspot.com/
http://irisheagle.blogspot.com/
http://www.inao.blogspot.com/
http://www.theleveebreaks.co.uk/

http://joseph-mcmanus.blogspot.com/
http://www.eamonngrant.org/
http://socialdublin.blogspot.com

http://freestater.blogspot.com/
http://www.prettycunning.net/blog/
http://www.dervala.net
http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/
http://www.davesrants.com/

http://www.monasette.com/blog/
http://planetpotato.blogs.com/
http://www.p45blogs.net/globaleyes/
http://johnandpaul.blogspot.com/
http://blogs.boards.ie/minesajackdaniels/

http://blogs.boards.ie/bard
http://kevindunne.com/
http://fifiefoefum.blogspot.com

http://blog.rymus.net/
http://dossing.blogspot.com/
http://spaces.msn.com/members/MacDara/
http://thelandofireland.blogspot.com/
http://www.runningwithbulls.com/blog/
http://richarddelevan.blogspot.com/
http://tcal.net/

http://www.youngunionists.org.uk/

http://www.dervala.net/
http://bonhom.ie/
http://pneill.blogspot.com/
http://lunchtime.blogspot.com/
http://ganching.typepad.com/
http://counago-and-spaves.blogspot.com/
http://www.blather.net/
http://oldrottenhat.typepad.com/
http://Rymus.net

http://www.caitriona.net/c/index.shtml
http://gingerpixel.com/
http://www.iced-coffee.com
http://www.thisisdiopter.org/
http://blather.net/abroad
http://inphotos.org
http://frogbrothers.net/blog/
http://www.focuspocus.org

http://www.theplasticcat.com/
http://www.inao.blogspot.com

http://ilikecameras.com/
http://www.photogranny.com/
http://www.thinkingoutloud.biz/
http://prettycunning.net/blog/
http://leptard.blogspot.com/
http://www.bifsniff.com/cartoons

http://www.dangermaus.com
http://www.stunned.org/weblog/
http://moving.prettycunning.net/
http://www.spoiltchild.com/spoilt

http://www.clamnuts.com/rants/
http://www.maguiresmovies.blogspot.com
http://www.pauljholden.com
http://manimator.blogspot.com

http://www.sluggerotoole.com
http://iepolitics.typepad.com/iepolitics/
http://www.digitalrights.ie/
http://www.disillusionedlefty.blogspot.com/
http://dossing.blogspot.com
http://unitedirelander.blogspot.com/

http://elblogador.blogspot.com
http://gavinsblog.com

http://freestater.blogspot.com
http://www.threatstodemocracy.com/
http://1169andcounting.blogspot.com
http://www.freedominst.org/blog.html
http://www.damienblake.com/
http://bestofbothworlds.blogspot.com/
http://infactah.com/
http://www.munsterpubs.com
http://fifiefoefum.blogspot.com/

http://blather.net/
http://www.minds.may.ie/planet
http://johnandpaul.blogspot.com
http://wulfbeorn.blogspot.com/
http://www.forallweknow.blogspot.com/
http://fdelondras.blogspot.com

http://www.davesrants.com
http://www.gavinsblog.com/

http://ricksbreakfastblog.blogspot.com/
http://embee.blogspot.com/
http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer
http://www.thinkingoutloud.biz
http://splinister.com/blog/
http://nellysgarden.blogspot.com/
http://www.bytesurgery.com/gearedup
http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/
http://irishbog.blogspot.com/

http://www.sliabh.net/
http://bitchbitchwhinewhinemoanmoang…logspirit.com/
http://dave.antidisinformation.com/
http://blogs.linux.ie/balor
http://www.davesadventure.com
http://www.avalon5.com/
http://www.janinedalton.com/blog/
http://blather.net/north

http://gainford.blogspot.com
http://www.clanpower.com/

http://thebigdrought.blogspot.com/
http://macdaraconroy.com/
http://lowlyjourno.blogspot.com
http://blog.rsynnott.com/
http://www.realitycheckdotie.blogspot.com
http://gaelpanu.blogspot.com/

http://imeall.blogspot.com/
http://hilaryny.blogspot.com/
http://spailpin.blogspot.com/
http://mhwombat.blogspot.com/

http://gaeilgefaoithalamh.blogs.ie
http://www.irishblogs.ie
http://www.johnbreslin.com/blog/
http://www.Irishblogs.info

http://www.tomrafteryit.net/views
http://taggingtech.typepad.com/
http://www.mneylon.com/blog
http://web2.0ireland.com/
http://gamestoaster.typepad.com/games_toaster/
http://itnorthwest.blogspot.com/
http://eirepreneur.blogs.com/
http://Irishdev.com
http://www.yourtechstuff.com/

http://digitaltvmobile.net/
http://www.kenmc.com/
http://inao.blogspot.com/

Same battime: March 11th, 7pm
Different batchannel: Alexander Hotel Dublin

MAP:

The reason for moving location is that I’m predicting about 150 people are going to this now and Buswells can’t hold that many people. I still need you to go and register your attendance here so I can plan for who is going and that I can enter you into the draws for spot prizes on the night which include vouchers, t-shirts, bottles of wine and o2 i-mode phones.