Oxygen.ie - 3 SMEDIAS 08 Judge List

3 SMEDIAS 08 Judge List

Newspaper of the year - Eoin McVey, The Irish Times

Editor of the year - John Walsh, The Irish Independent

Layout and design of the year - Phill Mason, The Star

Journalist of the year - Tim Vaughen, The Examiner

Peoples choice - The wonderful Oxygen.ie members!!

Sports writer of the year - Michael Scully, The Mirror

Journalist of the year (National press) - Damien Lane, The Sun

Features writer of the year (Arts and popular culture) - tbc

Features writer of the year (News and politics) - Catherine McLaughlin, The News of the World

Features writer of the year (Education) - Panel of HEA experts

Colour writer of the year - Billy Scanlon, The Star

Travel writer of the year - Colm Hanratty, Hostel World

Magazine of the year - Michael Doherty, RTE Guide

Society publication of the year - Fionnuala O'Leary, Evening Herald

Small college publication - Fionnuala O Leary, Herald AM

Film script of the year - Andrew Meehan, Irish Film Board

Short film of the year - Louise Hergarty, 98 FM

TV production of the year - Samantha Libreri, RTE

TV Journalist of the year - Joe Walsh, TV3

Léiriúcháin Teilifíse i nGaeilge Drámaíocht - Michael O Meallaigh, TG4

Léiriúcháin Teilifíse i nGaeilge - Faisnéis - Miriam Ni Neill, Udaras na Gaeltachta

Radio Production of the year (Arts/Features) - Peter Vamos, Phantom 105.2

Radio Production of the year (News) - Louise Hergarty, 98 FM

Website of the year - Katriona O'Leary, 3

Web Designer of the year - Oxygen.ie

Short Story of the year - Melissa Hill, Author and Galaxy Popular Fiction Nominee

Photographer of the year - Mark Condron, Sunday Tribune

News photographer of the year - Don Mullan, Nokia

Sports photographer of the year - Matt Browne, PPAI Winner 2006 (Sports)

Headline Award for journalism relating to suicide prevention and mental health awareness - Carl O'Brien, The Irish Times

Spanner Pics

Aussie train etiquette. Fair dinkum.

Linking to Spanner Pics - Aussie train etiquette

Joke of the Day

After Stewart Downing's inclusion in the England squad, I think they should name a street in his honour, where all people who are shit at their jobs and got selected when no-one wants them should live.Hang on...
(ACSPound)

Spanner TV

Korean English lesson : How much is Coke?

Link of the week

Auld lads are a gas bit of craic so they are. And they're on Twitter here. By Jaysus...

_{Topless Ukraine activist grabs Euro Cup}

(Reuters) - A Ukrainian women's rights activist stripped to the waist and seized the Euro-2012 soccer trophy while it was on public display in Kiev on Saturday in a protest against the forthcoming month-long championship.

The young woman, 23-year-old Yulia Kovpachik, is a member of the Kiev-based Femen women's rights group which believes the Euro-2012 soccer tournament being played in Ukraine next month will encourage sex tourism.

Kovpachik strode up to the silver, 60 centimeter (two feet) high trophy, which was on display as a tourist attraction in an open air exhibition in central Kiev, ostensibly to be photographed alongside it like hundreds of other sightseers.

But she then pulled down her red T-shirt to reveal the words "Fuck Euro 2012" scrawled on her torso. As she grabbed hold of the cup with both hands, she was seized by security guards, who appeared to have had advanced warning of the protest.

They covered her with a sheet and took her off to a waiting police car.

The protest appeared to be the first action in a campaign against the championship by Femen which regularly stages bare-breast protests in Ukraine - and sometimes beyond - to highlight what it sees as political injustice, social abuse and the exploitation of women in Ukraine.