Irish Blog Awards – Ireland 2011

Irish Blog Awards are on Twitter if you want to be updated on the competition. Please note you will need to buy your ticket online for the Blog Awards this year. Purchasing page.

Before making comment, please thank the sponsors for believing in the Blog Awards and making it happen. Why not link to them and thank them? Please congratulate your felllow nominees and the finalists. 120 judges broke their backsides to judge all the nominated and shortlisted blogs, giving up a good deal of time between them. On average, a blog in round 2 was judged by 8 judges. Good luck and we hope to see you on March 27th in Galway.

Best Popculture blog

– Sponsored by Insure.ie

• Venntertainment
• Culch.ie
• E-Dublin
• the m0vie blog
• Panti’s Blog Job

Best Food/Drink Blog

– Sponsored by Bord Bia

• Ice Cream Ireland
• The Beer Nut
• The Daily Spud
• The Grapes of Sloth
• The Good Mood Food Blog

Best Beauty/Fashion Blog

– Sponsored by Spinnakerpro

• Beaut.ie
• She’s in Vogue
• Makeup and Beauty
• What She Wears
• Soooali

Best Music Blog

– Sponsored by deStudio

• Torture Garden
• Faith No More 2.0
• Nialler9
• Goldenplec
• Swear I’m not Paul

Best Photo Blog

– Sponsored by Pix.ie

• Nathalie Marquez Courtney
• Ronan Palliser
• North Atlantic Skyline
• Day516.com
• Red Mum

Best Technology Blog/Blogger

– Sponsored by Bitbuzz

• The Gaming Liberty
• Pat Phelan
• Matt Johnston
• Sinead Cochrane
• Web2Ireland

Best Sport and Recreation Blog

– Sponsored by Boards.ie

• Back Page Football
• Arseblog
• Irish Pelaton
• Green and Red
• Sport Is A TV Show

Best Blog of a Business

– Sponsored by RedCardinal.ie

• Simply Zesty
• Contrast
• Sabrina Dent
• Curious Wines
• Sugru

Best Arts and Culture Blog

– Sponsored by Poetry Ireland

• Average Film Reviews
• David Maybury
• No Ordinary Fool
• kDamo
• Women Rule Writer

Best Blog from a Journalist

– Sponsored by BVisible

• Keith Belfast
• Screenwriter
• Outside In
• On The Record
• Current Account

Best News/Current Affairs Blog

– Sponsored by dediserve

• David McWilliams
• Human Rights in Ireland
• Bock The Robber
• Splintered Sunrise
• Maman Poulet

Best Group Blog

– Sponsored by Red Fly Marketing

• The Lives Of Others
• Irish Economy
• Irish Autism Action
• Come Here To Me!
• Irish Student Blogs

Best Political Blog

– Sponsored by Digital Revolutionaries

• Jason O’Mahony
• Slugger O’Toole
• Tuppenceworth
• Irish Election
• Gombeen Nation

Best Blog of a Politician

– Sponsored by Leviathan.ie

• Paschal Donohoe
• Laura McGonigle
• Joe Higgins
• Joan Burton
• Cuffe Street

Use of the Irish Language in a Blog

– Sponsored by Edgecast Media

• iGaeilge
• Réabhlag
• An Druma Mór
• Smaointe Fánacha Aonghusa
• Nótaí Imill
• Dialann Scott

Best Specialist Blog

– Sponsored by iQ Content

• Ronan Lyons
• Bicyclistic
• Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer
• Etsy Ireland
• Organic Growing Pains
• Sentence first

Best Newcomer

– Sponsored by LastMinute.com

• 9 Bean Row
• Good After-Morning!
• Pretty Far West
• The Style Bitches
• Chronicles of a year-long break-up

Best Youth Blog

– Sponsored by Spunout.ie

• Ian Healy
• Trust Tommy
• The Cart Driver
• StyleGirl
• So You Say

Best Personal Blog

– Sponsored by Microsoft Ireland’s Developer and Platform Group

• Queen Of Pots!
• annierhiannon.blogspot.com
• A Chick Named Hermia
• Fatmammycat’s Blog
• Xbox4NappyRash

Best Humour Blog

– Sponsored by Maximise

• Fustar
• White Rabbit NI
• Well Done Fillet
• Wheel Spinning Hamster Dead
• Twenty Major

Best Blog Post

– Sponsored by KRO IT Solutions
Finalists announced on Sunday

Best Blog

– Grand Prix – Sponsored by WHPR
Announced on the night

Before, during, after there’ll be a painting exhibition from Eolai.

On the day of the Irish Blog Awards in Galway there’ll be the Ladies Tea party.

There will also be a photowalk. (Please check with the photo bloggers on whether you are eligible to be in their club)

Irish Blog Awards are on Twitter if you want to be updated on website updates.

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

–

• 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 Spunout.ie

• 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 Maximise

• 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

To let those new to this Blog Awards business know what’s happening:

Judging:
Judging is about to start. It’ll run for about a week. Round 1 of judging will see all sites judged on general criteria. This will create a “long” list for each category.

For those blog owners who show up in multiple categories in the longlists you will have to choose which category you want to be in and your blog is moved forward into the next round of judging in that category. If you don’t want to make the choice we’ll randomly select one of the categories.

This will then create a finalists list, the winner of each category will be announced on the night.

Ticket Reservation:
We’ll be opening up reservation and ticket sales in the next while. Tickets will be priced at 15 euros.

Hotel deals
See here for discounts for hotels.

Before the reactions occur, please thank the sponsors for once again investing in the Blog Awards and making it happen. Why not link to them and thank? Please congratulate your felllow nominees and read some of the many new blogs that have come along this year and tell others of them.

These lists are the raw nomination lists with spam/junk nominations and some dead blogs removed. Yes we know some blogs in categories do not fit the category but this is what the general public has submitted. We do not have logos for you to put on your blog, other bloggers make them each year or you can make them yourself.

If you have an issue with a blog for not matching whatever criteria, it would be nice if you left a constructive comment here on this post to point it out and do so with your own name and blog. If you want your own blog to be removed from any/all categories you can do so in the comment section or via email to contact < at > awards.ie. We will not however accept any private mails asking for blogs to be removed that are not your own.

Judging will start early next week. Congratulations to the nominees. Thank you to those that nominated so many blogs.

Best Popculture blog

– Sponsored by Insure.ie

• Culch.ie
• Inky Wrists
• Dante and the Lobster
• Rosemary MacCabe
• Twenty Major
• The Pointy Adventures Of Jean-Claude Supremo
• Pop Culture Platinum
• White Rabbit NI
• le craic
• Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer
• Why, That’s Delightful!
• Panic Dots
• Good After-Morning!
• the m0vie blog
• Trendspot
• A Chick Named Hermia
• The Influentials
• Girl from the Hills Blog
• Make and Deux
• Spherical Notions
• kDamo
• Down with my Life by Vic Barry
• Lovely Disco
• MyHome.ie Blog
• Venntertainment
• Formeandu
• LateForMass.com
• Trendspot Blog
• Help My Style
• Faith No More 2.0
• E-Dublin
• Chess Club Party
• Electro Candy
• Screenwriter
• Panti’s Blog Job
• The Style Strutter
• Conor Creighton
• blaubushka
• BurnAllZombies
• Blink And You’ll Miss
• Town Full of Losers
• Declan Cashin
• Wired With Whelan
• SOS! Save Our Shoes
• Come Here To Me!
• The Savvy Shopper
• Eclectic Micks
• Barry Somers
• Des Bishop Unplugged
• Red Lemonade
• Hot Cross Mum
• Asleep on the Compost Heap
• Therese Brady
• The Girl’s Cult College Murders
• Soaperstar
• YouTube Dump
• The Style Bitches
• Average Film Reviews
• On The Record
• Swear I’m not Paul
• Totally Dublin Blog
• Nerin Online
• Stony River
• Day and Night Mag
• we’re havin a moment
• For the Hearts of a Generation

Best Food/Drink Blog

– Sponsored by Bord Bia

• The Good Mood Food Blog
• Cheap Eats
• The Daily Spud
• I Can Has Cook?
• Good Things Come to Those Who Wait (tables) | Well Done Fillet
• Therese Brady
• Ice Cream Ireland
• foodyblog
• Robert Francis Wine
• The Look and Taste Show
• Curious Wines
• Val’s Kitchen
• Chilli and Chocolate
• Italian Foodies
• Ballymaloe Cookery School
• Blake Creedon’s Wine Cork
• The Grapes of Sloth
• English Mum
• Dispatches from the Deise: Lemon Meringue Pie
• Bubble Brothers
• Michael Kelly
• Ummera
• Bibliocook
• Tea and Wheaten Bread
• The Beer Nut
• The Green Apron
• Lola-Lu’s Kitchen
• O’Briens Wine, Beer & Spirits Blog
• Not Junk Food
• Lily’s Blog
• Well Done Fillet

Best Beauty/Fashion Blog

– Sponsored by Spinnakerpro

• The Style Strutter
• Soooali
• The Style Bitches
• Beaut.ie
• Ripped Knees
• Rosemary MacCabe
• blaubushka
• Blanaid
• What She Wears
• Fash Mob
• I Blog Fashion
• SOS! Save Our Shoes
• Help My Style
• Dublin Streets
• Lovely Disco
• beckyDAZZLER
• The Savvy Shopper
• Nice Day Designs
• Silent Storyteller
• Sugahfix
• OffShoot
• Blink And You’ll Miss
• Aran Brew
• The Style Diet
• The Sexy Pedestrian
• What Will I Wear Today?
• Angela Scanlon
• White Rabbit
• i like local
• Arlene Johnston
• Wow.ie
• Butterslip
• Angela Scanlon
• Makeup and Beauty
• StyleBible.ie
• LA Makeup Academy
• Thunder + Threads
• She’s in Vogue
• The National Lottie
• The Portmanteau
• Male Mode
• Mwah.ie
• A Chick Named Hermia
• Sherbet Stars
• Fashion Filosofy

Best Music Blog

– Sponsored by deStudio

• Nialler9
• Goldenplec
• On The Record
• 2 U I Bestow
• Faith No More 2.0
• Spherical Notions
• Second Square to None
• Swear I’m not Paul
• IndieLimerick
• Torture Garden
• kDamo
• Those Geese Were Stupefied
• Musical Rooms
• The Clink
• Gigantic
• Asleep on the Compost Heap
• I’m Scared of Vinyl
• Cubikmusik
• Guesslist
• TheMisEducationOf
• mp3hugger
• French Letter
• Road Crew Comic
• Day and Night Mag
• Hardcore for Nerds
• Enough Talk, More Writing
• haido
• KilkennyMusic.com
• Edwin McFee
• TenaciousT
• Red TV
• Panic Dots
• These Auld Tapes From The Attic
• Euphiophone
• Amuze Me
• Town Full of Losers
• State
• SOS! Save Our Shoes
• Girl from the Hills Blog

Best Photo Blog

– Sponsored by Pix.ie

• Red Mum
• Irish Rain
• Barry Somers
• Ronan Pallister
• In Photos dot org
• Ginger Pixel
• John Williams
• My Left Ventricle
• Glassey Alley
• Half A Dream Away
• North Atlantic Skyline
• Iced Coffee
• Venividi
• Galloping Green
• White Rabbit NI
• Loop
• Gary Fox
• Elliot Tucker
• Hot Off The Memory Card
• Magnumlady
• Peter O’Donnell
• Declan Flynn
• Day516.com
• Ross Costigan Photography
• Bronsnan Photographic
• Stony River
• Eclectic images
• Gracies Bakes
• iviART
• Kieran Frost
• Can’t Leave Now
• City of Blackbirds
• I Take Photees
• Roger Overall
• Jennifer Farley
• Nathalie Marquez Courtney
• Kevoto
• The Daily Dublin Photo Blog
• Blanaid
• Shooting and Missing
• Val’s Kitchen
• Porchfield
• photopol
• Focus Pocus Photography
• EyeBlinks
• Snaptitude
• James McLoughlin
• Carrie Davenport
• Cork Analogue Photographers

Best Technology Blog/Blogger

– Sponsored by Bitbuzz

• TechTV101
• Digitology
• National E-learning Laboratory (NELL)
• Komplett Ireland
• Web2Ireland
• InchPebbles
• Contrast
• InsideView
• TechWire
• Stochastic Geometry
• AMIT Solutions
• Tom Raftery
• tech.sweetnam.eu
• Pat Phelan
• The Gaming Liberty
• High Caffeine Content
• Mobile Ireland
• Ken McGuire
• One By One Blog
• Davy Sims
• Teic.ie
• Live at the Witch Trials
• Matt Johnston
• Thomas Fitzgerald
• Sinead Cochrane
• ByteSurgery
• Villa81

Best Sport & Recreation Blog

– Sponsored by Boards.ie

• Back Page Football
• Full Twist
• Danger Here
• Sports News Ireland
• Arseblog
• Okey Dokey Football
• Newmarket GAA
• The Hook
• Tyne Time
• Come Here To Me!
• Football Corner
• Sport Is A TV Show
• Sportspeak
• Green and Red
• Irish Pelaton
• Mountain Biking West Cork
• Knock On
• Adrian Shanahan
• Whale Watch West Cork
• Bruff Rugby Football Club
• Lickable Wallpaper
• Outdoors Ireland
• Boston Irish
• BurnAllZombies
• Caving.ie
• DotBalls
• Dublin Knit Collective
• A Load Of Balls

Best Blog of a Business

– Sponsored by RedCardinal.ie

• Komplett Ireland
• Brown Blog Films
• Blacknight Blog
• Simply Zesty
• Curious Wines
• Ice Cream Ireland
• RevaHealth.com Blog
• Pat Phelan
• Krishna De
• Online Advertising
• Enterprise Ireland Americas
• Moore Groups Blog
• Sabrina Dent
• Wood Ale Designs
• MyHome.ie Blog
• Caricatures Ireland
• Irish Mortgage Brokers
• Made In Hollywood
• LadyUmbrella
• Motorcheck
• Value Ireland
• Outdoors Ireland
• Sales 2.0 Network
• iQ Content
• Ion Online Marketing
• Sugru
• ByteSurgery
• The Performance Corporation
• Nice Day Designs
• MKC
• Caricatures Ireland
• Garren Denny Lane Interiors
• Bloom.ie
• Decisions For Heroes
• PuddleDucks
• Bed and Breakfastworld
• Ask Direct
• LouderVoice
• Flowers Made Easy
• RedFly Marketing
• Cybercom
• This Is Knit
• Toddle
• Beanstalk Web Design
• Contrast
• Enterprise Ireland BestConnected

Best Arts and Culture Blog

– Sponsored by Poetry Ireland

• Culch.ie
• The Devious Theatre Company
• Pursued by a Bear
• Emerging Writer
• W[r]ite Noise NI
• The Stub
• An Cathach
• model blog
• David Maybury
• Women Rule Writer
• No Ordinary Fool
• Scannain
• The Performance Corporation
• Pue’s Occurrences
• The Small Print
• Eclectic Micks
• the m0vie blog
• Fieldwork
• kDamo
• Cherryorchard2′s Blog
• i like local
• Average Film Reviews
• Onwards…
• Diddlyi Magazine
• Self Interest and Sympathy
• She Knit Up That Ball
• The Inquisition
• Irish Fireside
• The Wooly Way of Ireland
• Musical Rooms
• TOTALFECKINEEJIT
• crapperdoodle.com
• The Gifted Babies
• Panti’s Blog Job
• Joy of Writing
• UisceBots
• Scamp
• Music Road
• Dante and the Lobster
• Sketches and Finished Pieces
• The Comic Cast
• Irish Rain
• The Jackanory
• StevieGBlog
• Country Heritage
• Irish Street Art
• Fustar
• Brown Blog Films
• Eoin Purcell’s Blog
• Etsy Ireland
• Ann Henderson
• An Art & Ecology Notebook
• SCC Art
• Jacolette
• Inky Wrists
• BLOOD RED INK
• John Jennings Events Blog
• Confessions of a Film Critic
• Caricatures Ireland
• A Word of One’s Own
• irishartblog.com
• Girl from the Hills Blog
• Irish KC
• Alan in Belfast
• Dublin Sketchers Group
• Shower of Kunst
• Stony River

Best Blog from a Journalist

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• On The Record
• The Story
• Gavin’s Blog
• Rosemary MacCabe
• Wired With Whelan
• TechWire
• Abigail Riley
• Tripping Along The Ledge
• Pricewatch
• Keith Belfast
• The Write Stuff
• Therese Brady
• Villa 81
• I Have Grave News
• Irish Times Political Blog
• A Chick Named Hermia
• Sir Jolt
• Screenwriter
• Dermot Keyes
• Hot Cross Mum
• Stony River
• Declan Cashin
• Outside In
• Nialler9
• Der Irische Berliner (En Berlín)
• Mechanical Turk
• Current Account
• Adam Maguire
• Paul Byrne
• Angela Scanlon
• Val’s Kitchen
• Brian Whelan
• Techno-Culture
• Pursued by a Bear
• Science@Culture Bulletin

Best News/Current Affairs Blog

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• Maman Poulet
• Twenty Major
• Bock The Robber
• E-Dublin
• The Story
• Ronan Lyons
• The Mire.net
• Human Rights in Ireland
• Dante and the Lobster
• Edel Coffey
• Gav Reilly
• Wired With Whelan
• Irish Mammy on the Run
• Irish Times Political Blog
• Cork Politics
• Slugger O’Toole
• Splintered Sunrise
• Morning Ireland
• Gaelick
• Northern Notes
• Three Thousand Versts in Loneliness
• Alan in Belfast
• The Punishment of Sloth
• Head Down Eyes Open
• David McWilliams
• Public Inquiry
• Oxfam Ireland
• Blurred Keys
• Ireland 16 Days Campaign
• Irish Election
• The State of the Nation

Best Group Blog

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• Come Here To Me!
• Culch.ie
• E-Dublin
• Irish Autism Action
• Coddle Pot
• The Dublin Community Blog
• Gaelick
• Etsy Ireland
• Human Rights in Ireland
• Enterprise Ireland Best Connected
• The Story
• Irish Economy
• Bock The Robber
• The Lives Of Others
• Eclectic Micks
• Dublin Opinion
• Irish Election
• Irish Student Blogs
• Pue’s Occurrences
• Connector
• The Clink
• Slugger O’Toole
• The Cedar Lounge Revolution
• Dad.ie
• Beaut.ie
• WhoseView
• Birds Conquer Their Wounded Conquer
• Second Square to None
• O2 The Ideas Room
• shoryuken.ie
• W[r]ite Noise NI
• Boob.ie
• Media Watch
• Brown Blog Films
• Blather.net
• The Small Print
• OffShoot
• Ireland South West
• Future Proof Kilkenny
• Voicesofyouth
• Chaos Thaoghaire
• Make and Deux
• Getnloose
• SCC English
• The Devious Theatre Company
• Youghal Online
• Forth Magazine
• The Frog Blog
• The Style Bitches
• Inky Wrists

Best Political Blog

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• Maman Poulet
• Ireland 16 Days Campaign
• Irish Election
• Slugger O’Toole
• The Cedar Lounge Revolution
• Bock The Robber
• Irish Left Review
• Women’s Aid Online
• Human Rights in Ireland
• The Story
• Twenty Major
• Gavin’s Blog
• Tuppenceworth
• The Punishment of Sloth
• photopol
• Red Lemonade
• Cork Politics
• Unstranger’s Blog
• Pete’s political verse
• Jason O’Mahony
• Irish Economy
• Panti’s Blog Job
• Irish Times Political Blog
• Bobballs!
• El Blogador
• Irish Election Literature
• Roe Valley Socialist
• Donal Corcoran’s Naas Blog
• Gombeen Nation
• Three Thousand Versts in Loneliness
• Dublin Opinion
• Alan in Belfast
• Tallyman
• Stephen Spillane
• http://
• Head Rambles
• Ireland 16 Days Campaign

Best Blog of a Politician

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• Cuffe Street
• Laura McGonigle
• Shane Ross
• Trevor’s Kitchen Garden
• Killian Forde
• Dominic Hannigan
• Joan Burton
• Joanna Tuffy
• Joe Higgins
• James Lawless
• David Norris
• Seamus Ryan
• Paschal Donohoe
• Richard Bruton
• Daithi McKay
• Daphne Trimble

Use of the Irish Language in a Blog

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• iGaeilge
• An Druma Mór
• Irish Word A Day
• Smaointe Fánacha Aonghusa
• Nótaí Imill
• Réabhlag
• The Spanish Exposition
• Talk Irish
• Dialann Scott

Best Specialist Blog

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• Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer
• Head Down Eyes Open
• Assistance Dog for Autism
• MummyMaps
• E-Dublin
• Hot Cross Mum
• Brown Blog Films
• Hammiesblog
• Mike Cosgrave
• A Word of One’s Own
• Human Rights in Ireland
• Reaper Gaming News
• The Savvy Shopper
• Enterprise Ireland Research Commercialisation
• Our Jacob
• Irish Taxi
• Screenwriter
• Wedding Dates
• Thread Bear’s Picnic
• Only In Tokyo
• Dante and the Lobster
• Notes On The Front
• Eclectic Micks
• Gaelick
• Peter Donegan Landscaping Weblog
• Security Ninja
• Irish Economy
• Ronan Lyons
• The Frog Blog
• The Jackanory
• Sentence first
• Irish Fireside
• Aran Brew
• The Blog of Kells
• Eugene’s Blog
• Road Crew Comic
• The Biopsy Report
• Galway Artist Online
• Eoin Purcell’s Blog
• Communicate Science
• Be Inspired Blog
• Tots2Teens
• Bed and Breakfastworld
• Women Rule Writer
• Creative Intelligence Blog
• Tazzymania
• David McWilliams
• Enterprise Ireland Best Connected
• Invert This Space
• Burke’s Corner
• Dad.ie
• hort’curious
• The Movie Bit
• Manic Mammy
• Knitting Neels
• The Stub
• i like local
• Amazed Knitters Patterns
• The Drop of a Hat
• Clasheen by Nicola Brown
• Prof. Jimmy Hill
• Down with my Life by Vic Barry
• Irish Election Literature
• Stony River
• Irish Writers’ Centre
• Cigars.ie
• Irish Autism Action
• The Lives Of Others
• Transplant News
• Des Bishop Unplugged
• I Married An Irish Farmer
• Annette J Dunlea
• Garren Denny Lane Interiors
• Small-leaved Shamrock
• The Comic Cast
• Pensions & Investments
• Maman Poulet
• Notes On The Front
• Xbox4NappyRash
• Irish Street Art
• Contrast
• Will & Testament
• B Magazine
• Bicyclistic
• Twenty Major
• Laughing Lion Design
• Organic Growing Pains
• David Maybury
• Paddy Power
• Puppet Portal Project
• Paul Dervan
• Mabel and Violet
• Etsy Ireland
• Digitology
• National Rural Network
• Online Advertising
• Archtech
• Lepetitcoquin
• Kitten O’Shea
• The Wooly Way of Ireland
• Beaut.ie
• Siobhan Clancy
• Visual Music
• Yogatic
• Love, Life and Aspie Antics
• shoryuken.ie
• Conor’s Fundraising Blog
• Cearta.ie
• No Added Sugar
• Local Forest Log
• World Debate
• Seandálaíocht
• Leo’s Learning Blog
• Anna Rosenfelder
• True Economics
• Go Ireland Blog
• Abigail Riley
• Good After-Morning!
• Lickable Wallpaper
• Letters of Note
• Autism, The King and I
• Musical Rooms
• Hell Or High Water
• My Hat
• The Demure Lemur
• She Knit Up That Ball
• Helene Hugel

Best Newcomer

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• Wired With Whelan
• Nerin Online
• I Married An Irish Farmer
• Hot Cross Mum
• The Influentials
• The Style Strutter
• blaubushka
• A Word of One’s Own
• Electro Candy
• the m0vie blog
• The Mire.net
• W[r]ite Noise NI
• TechTV101
• Blanaid
• Human Rights in Ireland
• Prof. Jimmy Hill
• The Demure Lemur
• Autism, The King and I
• Good After-Morning!
• Ireland after NAMA
• Scannain
• Lily’s Blog
• The Savvy Shopper
• Fieldwork
• White Rabbit NI
• My Name is Amy
• i like local
• Make and Deux
• Full Twist
• Girl from the Hills Blog
• The Clink
• Jane Obsessed With Jane
• Reaper Gaming News
• Come Here To Me!
• Deryck Tormey’s Blog
• Panic Dots
• Coddle Pot
• LTI Blog
• Sugru
• Makeup and Beauty
• Stretch MacGibbon’s Magical Musical Mlog
• LateForMass.com
• Dobby’s Sock
• I Can Has Cook?
• Chronicles of a year-long break-up
• Hal9000.ie
• Communicate Science
• Silent Storyteller
• Not Junk Food
• Jim’s Commute Blog
• Etsy Ireland
• Gaelick
• Meetforeal Blog
• A Dress and A Bike
• Dinner du Jour
• Voicesofyouth
• Irish Election Literature
• How Did You Get There
• Online Advertising
• The Style Bitches
• Not the Nuacht
• Style By Caroline
• Eclectic Micks
• Wood Ale Designs
• Things 4 Teens to do in Dublin
• Therese Brady
• Irish Pelaton
• Clean Sheets
• Gary Fox
• crapperdoodle.com
• I Married an Irish Farmer
• Dad.ie
• Dave Minogue
• The Green Apron
• Jane obsessed with Jane
• Unwind Your Mind
• The Jackanory
• 3laine
• Pretty Far West
• Media Watch
• Getnloose
• The Small Print
• PlanetOutreach-ASD
• David O’Keefe
• Cowley Photography
• Reaper Gaming News
• Pue’s Occurrences
• The Gaming Liberty
• 9 Bean Row
• shoryuken.ie
• Ardoyne Republican
• Scruff Daddy Blog
• The Jelly Monster
• USI Equality
• My Dublin Life
• kDamo
• Jennifer Alice in Wonderland
• BLOOD RED INK
• Laura McGonigle
• Shower of Kunst

Best Youth Blog – Sponsored by Spunout.ie

• The Magic Position
• Trust Tommy
• Mark Walsh
• Things 4 Teens to do in Dublin
• The Write Stuff
• The Cart Driver
• First Three Chapters
• So You Say
• Adam Hoban
• David O’Keefe
• Kevin Coleman
• Ian Healy
• Voicesofyouth
• Luke F Comics
• 3laine
• Gaga’s Little Monsters
• The Mire.net
• StyleGirl

Best Personal Blog

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• Good After-Morning!
• E-Dublin
• Queen Of Pots!
• Paddy in Buenos Asia
• White Rabbit NI
• Dispatches from the Deise
• Fatmammycat’s Blog
• A Chick Named Hermia
• Mark Walsh
• Xbox4NappyRash
• Grannymar
• Head Rambles
• Blanaid
• Sir Jolt
• Jennifer Alice in Wonderland
• Trust Tommy
• The Spanish Exposition
• Party Down and Go Fuck Yourself
• Twenty Major
• Sinead Cochrane
• The National Lottie
• John Moynes
• Down with my Life by Vic Barry
• K8 the Gr8
• Stony River
• Live at the Witch Trials
• The Demure Lemur
• Pretty Far West
• Chancing My Arm
• Assistance Dog for Autism
• Irish Rain
• Therese Brady
• Wallpaper
• http://travors.com
• Words – Martin Dwyer
• The Lives Of Others
• Hammiesblog
• Alexia Golez
• Decs Rambling
• Conor’s Bandon Blog
• http://mandiedempseys.blogspot.com
• Off The Meatrack
• Only In Tokyo
• You’re confusing me with someone who gives a shit
• Hot Cross Mum
• helen james design
• http://allsortsofthings.wordpress.com
• The Punishment of Sloth
• http://leargas.blogspot.com
• From Bath to Cork with Baby Grace
• Asleep on the Compost Heap
• Mark Walsh
• First Three Chapters
• Annette Dunlea
• http://paulmay.org
• photopol
• Variou Cushions
• Ganching
• Eugene’s Blog
• Bicyclistic
• Darragh Doyle
• Val’s Kitchen
• The Biopsy Report
• Tots2Teens
• Prof. Jimmy Hill
• Irish Wanderings
• Adventures of a Welsh Tramp
• http://lyndarthemerciless.blogspot.com
• Clamnuts
• Whopper’s Bunker
• PlanetOutreach-ASD
• NiallOK.com
• True Economics
• Fieldwork
• http://morrigan-reborn.blogspot.com
• Three Thousand Versts in Loneliness
• nickhereandnow
• Girl from the Hills Blog
• Tazzymania
• Magatha-May
• Tinman18
• Manic Mammy
• Mwah.ie
• Still not driving
• Aislinn O’C
• Sabrina Dent
• John Keyes
• Stranded on Gaia
• Coffee Helps
• The Last of the Mojitos
• Blink And You’ll Miss
• Tir na Blog
• Not Sheep
• My Ex-Girlfriends
• My Dublin Life
• I Married An Irish Farmer
• A Trivial Blog For Serious People
• Red Mum
• Delightful Adventures in Dublin
• Lily’s Blog
• Small-leaved Shamrock
• Colm O’Gorman
• Inside View from Ireland
• Eamonn Fitzgerald’s Rainy Day
• Enough Talk, More Writing
• Virtual Haze
• W[r]ite Noise NI
• Ansnagbreac
• Lyndsay and the City
• Mad Dogs and Englishmen
• darragh’s blog
• My Name is Amy
• Invert This Space
• Makeup and Beauty
• Rosemary MacCabe
• Irish Mammy on the Run
• Are You There Blog? It’s Me, Charlotte
• Adland Ireland
• Annie Rhiannon

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Best Humour Blog

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• Good After-Morning!
• Twenty Major
• How Did You Get There
• Head Rambles
• Not the Nuacht
• Dave Minogue
• White Rabbit NI
• Reaper Gaming News
• Hairy Fish
• Coddle Pot
• Tripping Along The Ledge
• The Mire.net
• Space Avalanche
• The Dreaming Arm
• Maxi Cane
• Jennifer Alice in Wonderland
• Irish Sentinel
• Bock The Robber
• The Style Bitches
• The Call of The Puffincat
• Enough Talk, More Writing
• Fustar
• Xbox4NappyRash
• Party Down and Go Fuck Yourself
• The Hoff – Seamus Whelehan
• Spazzmoid
• LostLidy
• Who’s Aidan?
• Dulwich Mum
• Off The Meatrack
• Whopper’s Bunker
• The Punishment of Sloth
• Good Things Come to Those Who Wait (tables) | Well Done Fillet
• Grannymar
• Khmer Rouge Strippergram
• DUP Pants on Fire
• An Cruiskeen Lawnmower
• Crikey and Other Profanities
• Wheel Spinning Hamster Dead
• Mammy Diaries
• Road Crew Comic
• Riemann’s Cut
• Garfield Minus Garfield
• Fugger
• Mark Walsh
• crapperdoodle.com
• photopol
• Stop and I’ll Explain Everything
• Big Mental Disease
• Trust Tommy
• Well Done Fillet
• E. M. Esq.

Best Blog Post

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• Hairy Fish: Unlucky Pants
• Twenty Major: On Irish Blogging Being Over
• Twenty Major: It’s Time to Turn Our Back on the Criminal Church Ltd
• Inky Wrists: Saturday Night with Albert Wafer
• The Spanish Exposition: This Little Piggy
• Autism, The King and I: The Fat Look?
• The National Lottie: Misadventures in Life & Fashion
• Manic Mammy: Personalised Santa Message from Portable North Pole
• Second Square to None: Ten Second Rule / Stage 1 Public Unveiling
• Irish Autism Action: What is Autism? from my point of view…..
• The Voyage: Just As He Is
• From Bath to Baby Grace: Irish Blog Awards 2009 – an injustice has been committed, I still fear
• Human Rights in Ireland: Hickey on Religious Patronage of Irish Primary Schools and Republicanism
• The Daily Spud: Spud Sunday – In Defence of Salt
• Town Full of Losers: Accentuate the Positive
• Kelle Grace: Put On Your Red Shoes and Dance the Blues
• Property Market Information: Ireland is still in the dark ages when it comes to property prices
• The Mire.net: Sexperts Fear Quitting Golf Coudl Damage Tiger’s Game
• Down with my Life by Vic Barry: The One with the Other Budget
• i like local: If Like Me, You’re a Bit of a Design Nut
• From Bath to Cork with Baby Grace: Poem of the Year 2009
• Sport Is A TV Show: Damn United: The Official 2009/10 Sport Is A TV Show Premier League Preview
• Wheel Spinning Hamster Dead: 0107
• Nialler9: Nialler9 Irish Albums 2009 Poll Results
• blaubushka: Interview #6 – Ark
• Panti’s Blog Job: No More Mr Nice Gay
• Wandering Educators: Milwaukee Irish Fest 2009
• Fustar: Images that Make Me Want to Cry: 4 – These are My Bitches
• Good After-Morning!: Best/Worst Ever
• Swear I’m not Paul: The 00s: A Decade in Irish Music
• The Torture Garden: Songs of 2009
• Culch.ie: On the Main – An Epic Tragedy in Six Halves
• Asleep on the Compost Heap: Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone yadda yadda yadda…
• That’s Jentertainment: Why I’m Giving Oxegen 2009 a Miss
• Fustar: Willow
• Maddie’s Ramblings: Would I Cure My Autistic Son?
• Clamnuts: All I nearly wanted for Christmas was my..
• The Mire.net: iPad Roleplay Gives Users Full Charlie Bird Experience
• Paullies Cartoons: Molloy Golden Handshake
• Khmer Rouge Strippergram: Never Mind the Bourbons
• Human Rights in Ireland: A Primer on ‘Hijab Debate 2009?
• Guesslist: Why are we paying so much for live shows?
• Fatmammycat: Twilight, the horror, the horror
• Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness: Hostile reactions to Irish Policing Board meeting undermine arguments for Union
• Mark Walsh: It’s Business Time
• The Punishment of Sloth: Legerdemain
• Head Rambles: Passive Smoking is Beneficial
• Looking for Blue Sky: The minefield of user-friendly language
• The Demure Lemur: Sexual Obsession
• Good Things Come to Those Who Wait (tables) | Well Done Fillet
• No Added Sugar: Why I Do It With Ubuntu
• Music Road: Ceol Chairlinn: Sharing Music in winter
• The Punishment of Sloth: This is Not a Parable
• Stochastic Geometry: Joel Spolsky, Snake-Oil Salesman
• Hell Or High Water: Writing and Ireland
• E.M. Esq.: JD Salinger is Dead
• Stranded on Gaia: I heard there was a secret chord
• Keith Belfast: Photo Credits
• Culch.ie: Conventional Wisdom
• Hammiesblog: One Small Bite of the Cookie
• Roger Overall: Elliot’s Way
• Ellybabes: Back to blogging? Eh, maybe…
• What She Wears: Celebrity Fashion Collections
• On The Record: It’s the one you have been waiting for – the Choice Music Prize shortlist
• Maxi Cane: The Cedar Room
• Xbox4NappyRash: Saving You from Tales of Fireflies
• The M0vie Blog: Are Bloggers Critics?
• How Did You Get There: Interview with Seeker of Agent/Publisher
• Contrast: A Year in Contrast
• How Did You Get There: Kristi Meets the Rich and Famous
• Worth Doing Badly: Wrapped In Cotton Wool
• White Rabbit: Smugster or *Insert Better Title Here*
• White Rabbit: Legs the Lurker & Barbie
• Mark Walsh: The Haircut
• photopol: TIME’s Blogger of the Year
• Assistance Dog for Autism: Our 100th post – celebrating three working years
• Jason Roe: Ryanair No Credit Card Fee + 0.00 Flght Bug
• Local Forest Log: The Beauty of Rosebay Willowherb
• Fieldwork: Reasons to Love Camping
• Curly Dena: I Wasn’t Ready
• Love, Life and Aspie Antics: A Rose by Any Other Name…
• Khmer Rouge Strippergram: 101 Superfoods that Could Save Your Life