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IT’S OFFICIAL – THE best Irish album released last year was Jason by O Emperor, according to RTÉ’s Choice Music Prize 2018.
The 10 albums that had been battling it out to be named Irish record of the year were:
O Emperor were announced as the winners at last night’s live event at Vicar Street in Dublin, which was hosted by RTÉ 2FM’s Eoghan McDermott.
The band received a cheque for €10,000, a prize which has been provided by the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) and the Irish Recorded Music Association (IMRA).
“Once again, 2018 was a terrific year for the quality of Irish albums released, and the judging process reflected this,” Chairperson of the judging panel Tony Clayton-Lea said.
“Of all the years that I have been chairman of the judging panel, this year was the closet in terms of winner and runner-up, with Kojaque’s album Deli Daydreams pipped at the post by O Emperor,” he said.
The award for the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Song of the Year was last night scooped up by Picture This for their song One Drink.
Decided by the public via the RTÉ and Choice Music Prize websites, fans were given the chance to get behind their favourite song.
RTÉ Two will broadcast a one-hour TV highlights programme of the RTÉ Choice Music Prize featuring performances from the acts on Sunday 17 March at 11.15pm.
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The cream crackers?
Guess whos at it again? It all happening in Wexford this week , money cars and drug seizures, the boys will be like divils.
@Dáithí O Raghailaigh: alriiiii saaaaan
Aside from the fact that Clonegal is not even in Wexford it’s also 25km away from Enniscorthy. Some great journalism on display here
@Paul Howlin: in fairness, for some bizarre reason, the official postal address is Clonegal, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, even though the village itself is in Carlow. And many Clonegal people who don’t want to give the impression they live in a different county give their address as Clonegal, Enniscorthy, Co. Carlow….which looks even more bizarre.
Then on top of all that, you could be living in a townsland two miles away, that’s actually in Co. Wicklow….so despite living in Wicklow, your official address would be (townsland name, Wicklow), Clonegal (in Carlow), Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.
Now that they have their ethnic status they can do as they please. We should embrace the travelling community and learn from them as they have a lot to offer us like items for sale in puk fair etc boss.
@Jumperoo: It’s not bizarre at all. Post for Clonegal is delivered from Enniscorthy District Sorting Unit (DSU). It happens all over the country where mail for an address actually in one county, gets delivered by a postman working out of a DSU in an adjoining county mainly due to its proximity!
Clonegal is in Carlow
@Joe Murphy: whats 5klm between friends ?
@Joe Murphy: Wonder why they’d take this vermin to baltinglass. What did Wicklow do to deserve this lot.
@Dáithí O Raghailaigh: more like 25km mate
.. is that because the local boyos lost the big boyos stuff in the past week or so ..
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