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Congratulations to all who made it this far, a massive massive thank you to all the judges who worked their socks off to bring us to this point.
Judging Round 1 is now done. Judging Round 2 will start on Friday. After Round 2, a finalist lists will be released.
Below are the Shortlists. With all blogs judged, we have shortened the lists to 25 in some categories and less in others. Some blogs are listed in multiple categories, however a blog can only be moved forward into one category. Shortlistees have until Friday at 3pm to choose the category you want it to remain in or it will be done for you. Please email Contact < at > awards.ie with the exact subjectline: Blog Choice 2010, tell us what categories it was shortlisted in and what category you want it moved forward in to.
Best Popculture blog
– Sponsored by Insure.ie
- On The Record
- Lovely Disco
- The Style Bitches
- Faith No More 2.0
- Screenwriter
- kDamo
- Good After-Morning!
- Culch.ie
- Inky Wrists
- Venntertainment
- Barry Somers
- Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer
- Soaperstar
- A Chick Named Hermia
- Twenty Major
- the m0vie blog
- E-Dublin
- Nerin Online
- Wired With Whelan
- Panti’s Blog Job
- le craic
- Blink And You’ll Miss
- Hot Cross Mum
- Town Full of Losers
- Average Film Reviews
- Down with my Life by Vic Barry
Best Food/Drink Blog
– Sponsored by Bord Bia
- English Mum
- Dispatches from the Deise: Lemon Meringue Pie
- Ice Cream Ireland
- Lily’s Blog
- Tea and Wheaten Bread
- The Grapes of Sloth
- The Look and Taste Show
- Robert Francis Wine
- Michael Kelly
- The Daily Spud
- Good Things Come to Those Who Wait (tables) | Well Done Fillet
- The Beer Nut
- Curious Wines
- Not Junk Food
- Bubble Brothers
- Lola-Lu’s Kitchen
- Cheap Eats
- I Can Has Cook?
- The Good Mood Food Blog
- Chilli and Chocolate
- Therese Brady
- Ballymaloe Cookery School
- Italian Foodies
- Val’s Kitchen
- O’Briens Wine, Beer & Spirits Blog
Best Beauty/Fashion Blog
– Sponsored by Spinnakerpro
- The Style Bitches
- The Sexy Pedestrian
- Soooali
- Aran Brew
- The Portmanteau
- Makeup and Beauty
- Blink And You’ll Miss
- OffShoot
- Beaut.ie
- I Blog Fashion
- The Savvy Shopper
- A Chick Named Hermia
- Blanaid
- White Rabbit
- Lovely Disco
- Nice Day Designs
- What She Wears
- Ripped Knees
- beckyDAZZLER
- She’s in Vogue
- Rosemary MacCabe
- Wow.ie
- The Style Strutter
- i like local
Best Music Blog
– Sponsored by deStudio
- Cubikmusik
- kDamo
- Nialler9
- Panic Dots
- Enough Talk, More Writing
- mp3hugger
- Torture Garden
- TenaciousT
- Musical Rooms
- Town Full of Losers
- I’m Scared of Vinyl
- KilkennyMusic.com
- Euphiophone
- Swear I’m not Paul
- Goldenplec
- Hardcore for Nerds
- On The Record
- Faith No More 2.0
- Those Geese Were Stupefied
- TheMisEducationOf
- haido
- These Auld Tapes From The Attic
- State
- Amuze Me
Best Photo Blog
– Sponsored by Pix.ie
- Venividi
- Red Mum
- Ronan Pallister
- Blanaid
- Kevoto
- In Photos dot org
- Elliot Tucker
- John Williams
- Roger Overall
- Jennifer Farley
- The Daily Dublin Photo Blog
- Ginger Pixel
- Magnumlady
- North Atlantic Skyline
- Barry Somers
- Cork Analogue Photographers
- Shooting and Missing
- Day516.com
- Iced Coffee
- Hot Off The Memory Card
- Glassey Alley
- Eclectic images
- Porchfield
- Nathalie Marquez Courtney
- City of Blackbirds
- Irish Rain
- James McLoughlin
Best Technology Blog/Blogger
– Sponsored by Bitbuzz
- Teic.ie
- Contrast
- Matt Johnston
- Thomas Fitzgerald
- Pat Phelan
- Digitology
- Ken McGuire
- The Gaming Liberty
- Stochastic Geometry
- Komplett Ireland
- TechWire
- ByteSurgery
- Sinead Cochrane
- Live at the Witch Trials
- TechTV101
- AMIT Solutions
- Web2Ireland
- National E-learning Laboratory (NELL)
- One By One Blog
- High Caffeine Content
Best Sport & Recreation Blog
– Sponsored by Boards.ie
- Back Page Football
- Sport Is A TV Show
- Knock On
- Dublin Knit Collective
- Full Twist
- Come Here To Me!
- Arseblog
- Green and Red
- Tyne Time
- Football Corner
- The Hook
- BurnAllZombies
- A Load Of Balls
- Irish Pelaton
- Outdoors Ireland
- Danger Here
- Boston Irish
- Bruff Rugby Football Club
- Newmarket GAA
- Adrian Shanahan
Best Blog of a Business
– Sponsored by RedCardinal.ie
- Sugru
- Pat Phelan
- Simply Zesty
- Contrast
- Sabrina Dent
- Ice Cream Ireland
- Sales 2.0 Network
- Garren Denny Lane Interiors
- Krishna De
- Brown Blog Films
- Curious Wines
- Curious Wines
- Outdoors Ireland
- Nice Day Designs
- PuddleDucks
- Komplett Ireland
- Moore Groups Blog
- Toddle
- Irish Mortgage Brokers
- motorcheck.ie/blog
- Caricatures Ireland
- MyHome.ie Blog
- Wood Ale Designs
- RevaHealth.com Blog
- Made In Hollywood
- Decisions For Heroes
- LouderVoice
Best Arts and Culture Blog
– Sponsored by Poetry Ireland
- kDamo
- David Maybury
- She Knit Up That Ball
- Average Film Reviews
- Culch.ie
- No Ordinary Fool
- Etsy Ireland
- Irish Fireside
- An Art & Ecology Notebook
- TOTALFECKINEEJIT
- A Word of One’s Own
- Women Rule Writer
- Scamp
- Inky Wrists
- The Jackanory
- the m0vie blog
- Eoin Purcell’s Blog
- Dublin Sketchers Group
- Brown Blog Films
- The Comic Cast
- UisceBots
- Musical Rooms
- Joy of Writing
- Self Interest and Sympathy
- Irish KC
Best Blog from a Journalist
– Sponsored by BVisible
- The Story
- Techno-Culture
- A Chick Named Hermia
- On The Record
- Irish Times Political Blog
- Nialler9
- Adam Maguire
- Wired With Whelan
- Keith Belfast
- Screenwriter
- Pricewatch
- Tripping Along The Ledge
- Outside In
- Abigail Riley
- Hot Cross Mum
- Paul Byrne
- Pursued by a Bear
- Current Account
- Mechanical Turk
- TechWire
- Stony River
- Gavin’s Blog
- Therese Brady
- Rosemary MacCabe
- Dermot Keyes
Best News/Current Affairs Blog
– Sponsored by dediserve
- Irish Election
- Wired With Whelan
- Twenty Major
- Irish Times Political Blog
- Bock The Robber
- The Mire.net
- Human Rights in Ireland
- Blurred Keys
- Maman Poulet
- Slugger O’Toole
- Irish Mammy on the Run
- Ronan Lyons
- Alan in Belfast
- Three Thousand Versts in Loneliness
- Splintered Sunrise
- Head Down Eyes Open
- David McWilliams
- Gaelick
- Public Inquiry
- Gav Reilly
Best Group Blog
– Sponsored by Red Fly Marketing
- Irish Student Blogs
- Culch.ie
- Irish Election
- Beaut.ie
- Blather.net
- Youghal Online
- SCC English
- Coddle Pot
- The Style Bitches
- Etsy Ireland
- Bock The Robber
- Ireland South West
- Slugger O’Toole
- Brown Blog Films
- Irish Economy
- The Cedar Lounge Revolution
- Irish Autism Action
- OffShoot
- Inky Wrists
- The Lives Of Others
- Come Here To Me!
- Pue’s Occurrences
- shoryuken.ie
- Eclectic Micks
- Dad.ie
Best Political Blog
– Sponsored by Digital Revolutionaries
- The Story
- The Cedar Lounge Revolution
- Irish Left Review
- Twenty Major
- Jason O’Mahony
- Irish Times Political Blog
- Gombeen Nation
- Tuppenceworth
- Bock The Robber
- Slugger O’Toole
- Maman Poulet
- Gavin’s Blog
- Tallyman
- Bobballs!
- Irish Economy
- Irish Election
- Stephen Spillane
- Alan in Belfast
- Three Thousand Versts in Loneliness
- Red Lemonade
- Roe Valley Socialist
- Human Rights in Ireland
- Dublin Opinion
- Ireland 16 Days Campaign
- Pete’s political verse
- Cork Politics
Best Blog of a Politician
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- Richard Bruton
- David Norris
- trevorskitchengarden.ie
- Laura McGonigle
- Joanna Tuffy
- Daphne Trimble
- Joe Higgins
- Shane Ross
- Joan Burton
- Daithi McKay
- Seamus Ryan
- James Lawless
- Dominic Hannigan
- Cuffe Street
- Killian Forde
- Paschal Donohoe
Use of the Irish Language in a Blog
– Sponsored by Edgecast Media
- iGaeilge
- Réabhlag
- The Spanish Exposition
- An Druma Mór
- Irish Word A Day
- Smaointe Fánacha Aonghusa
- Nótaí Imill
- Talk Irish
- Dialann Scott
Best Specialist Blog
– Sponsored by iQ Content
- The Movie Bit
- Clasheen by Nicola Brown
- Aran Brew
- Road Crew Comic
- Mabel and Violet
- Irish Taxi
- Xbox4NappyRash
- Hammiesblog
- She Knit Up That Ball
- Etsy Ireland
- Sentence first
- Irish Fireside
- Laughing Lion Design
- Transplant News
- Screenwriter
- Organic Growing Pains
- Yogatic
- Burke’s Corner
- Garren Denny Lane Interiors
- Kitten O’Shea
- A Word of One’s Own
- Women Rule Writer
- Bicyclistic
- Eoin Purcell’s Blog
- Maman Poulet
Best Newcomer
– Sponsored by LastMinute.com
- The Mire.net
- the m0vie blog
- 9 Bean Row
- Blanaid
- Coddle Pot
- The Style Bitches
- Etsy Ireland
- Dave Minogue
- Lily’s Blog
- Jennifer Alice in Wonderland
- kDamo
- Chronicles of a year-long break-up
- A Word of One’s Own
- Jane Obsessed With Jane
- Sugru
- Hot Cross Mum
- Good After-Morning!
- Meetforeal Blog
- I Can Has Cook?
- Nerin Online
- Makeup and Beauty
- A Dress and A Bike
- The Demure Lemur
- Dinner du Jour
- Stretch MacGibbon’s Magical Musical Mlog
Best Youth Blog – Sponsored by
- Ian Healy
- Adam Hoban
- The Cart Driver
- The Mire.net
- Trust Tommy
- So You Say
- The Magic Position
- Kevin Coleman
- StyleGirl
- Voicesofyouth
- Mark Walsh
Best Personal Blog
– Sponsored by Microsoft Ireland’s Developer and Platform Group
- Grannymar
- Delightful Adventures in Dublin
- The Last of the Mojitos
- Tir na Blog
- Bicyclistic
- Colm O’Gorman
- darragh’s blog
- lyndarthemerciless.blogspot.com
- Fatmammycat’s Blog
- A Chick Named Hermia
- Sabrina Dent
- Blanaid
- Dispatches from the Deise
- K8 the Gr8
- nickhereandnow
- Lily’s Blog
- Jennifer Alice in Wonderland
- Queen Of Pots!
- ganching.typepad.com/ganching
- Xbox4NappyRash
- Irish Mammy on the Run
- Whopper’s Bunker
- Makeup and Beauty
- mandiedempseys.blogspot.com
- Hammiesblog
Best Humour Blog
– Sponsored by
- Tripping Along The Ledge
- Xbox4NappyRash
- Whopper’s Bunker
- Well Done Fillet
- Road Crew Comic
- Twenty Major
- Head Rambles
- Not the Nuacht
- Coddle Pot
- Jennifer Alice in Wonderland
- Dave Minogue
- Bock The Robber
- The Mire.net
- Good After-Morning!
- The Dreaming Arm
- Wheel Spinning Hamster Dead
- Irish Sentinel
- An Cruiskeen Lawnmower
- Fustar
- Mammy Diaries
- How Did You Get There
- White Rabbit NI
- Enough Talk, More Writing
- Off The Meatrack
- Maxi Cane
Best Blog Post
– Sponsored by KRO IT Solutions
Shortlistees to be announced soon
MAde the cut in best youth. Nice. Congrats to all.
Oh its ON,Mark 😉
Thank you everyone, I am humbled to see my name listed again this year.
Good birthday present, eh? 😀
Ian, If you meant me, YES it is a great birthday present!
Well done to who made the cut this time.
Absolutely delighted to have made the shortlist. Win or lose – looking forward to a great night in Galway!
Thank you very much! I’m chuffed to be shortlisted. Best of luck to everyone
Well done to all who’ve made the cut. Will the criteria by which they were picked be made public? Could help improve the quality of blogs overall.
Thanks. Much appreciated. Can’t believe we made it. Wow.
Woot!!! Thanks guys 🙂
Cool guys! Looking forward to it!
Btw, http://www.e-dublin.com.br/en for english version 🙂
Holy moly. Cannot quite believe I made the “short”list for Best Personal! Delighted 😀
Lynnie @Lyndar The Merciless
Thanks to the judges for keeping me in this far and hope they enjoyed passing by my blog! Whatever happens this has all been a rather unexpected and happy adventure.
Wow! Bit surprised to be nominated to be honest, but thanks so much. Didn’t think I gave anything like enough attention to my blog to merit this!
Wow, so glad to see many of my own favourites here; lots of new favourites too from all the new links to visit. Congratulations everyone!
Of course I meant you, Grannymar! 😀
Congratulations everyone. It’s a very tight race. Some extremely tough competition this year. Best of luck to all on the night.
Great to be shortlisted and to see so many good blogs. Thanks!
Very excited to have made the cut, only been blogging for a few months now so it’s a great feeling 🙂
This is a very handy page for finding new Irish blogs to investigate — be they new to the world or just to me.
Thanks to whoever nominated Sentence first and judged it worthy of the (not so) shortlist. Good luck to all the nominees, and have a great night in Galway!
Wow! I’m delighted to be nominated and will celebrate that, as the company I am keeping in each category makes me feel a little bit like a home made animated feature; against the likes of “UP”.
Thanks to everyone for organising the awards. Really chuffed. xx
Just a quick question: will the finalised shortlists be published, or are they simply available to the judges?
Yes
Hi there.. I’m nominated in the Pop Culture section (yay!).. just a note to say that the link doesn’t seem to be working when you click on “Soaperstar” … the web address should read http://www.soaperstar.blogspot.com just in case it’s confusing anyone. Thanks!
Thanks for the nominations and drafting. We are very chuffed 🙂
Great to get this far, and the blog just got syndicated this week as well. Must be something in the air.
Great stuff, Damien, just discovered your fluffy links website and all you do – interesting ideas and some really good quality content there.