The shortlist for the Smedias is here! Congratulations to everyone shortlisted, keep checking back on the Oxygen.ie page for nominations which will be announced in the coming days.
NOTE: the following categories will not be shortlisted, but will go straight to having their nominations announced along with the other categories in the following week or so:; Small College/Society Publication of the Year; Magazine of the Year; News Photographer of the Year; Photographer of the Year, Irish Times Student Hub.
Editor of the Year
- Paul Saunders – UL
- Aaron Gallagher – DCU
- Michelle Hogan – UL
- Oisin Vince Coulter – TCD
- Matthew Colfer – DIT
- Roisin Guyett-Nicholson + Martin Healy – UCD
- Jill Kingston – UCC
- Robert O’Sullivan – UCC
- Jack Power – UCD
- Gavin Hyland, Conor Shields – DIT
- Eoin McSweeney – UCC
- Sorcha O Connor – NUIG
Newspaper of the Year
- An Focal – UL
- Limerick Voice – UL
- Trinity News – TCD
- The Edition – DIT
- The University Observer – UCD
- UCC Express – UCC
- The College Tribune – UCD
- The Liberty – DIT
- Student Independent Newspaper (SIN) – NUIG
Journalist of the Year
- Stephen Sharpe – GCD
- Paul Saunders – UL
- Ryan O’Neill – UCC
- Emily Freud – UCC
- Killian Down – UCC
- Ruth Murphy – UCD
- Ause Abdelhaq – UCD
- David Monaghan – UCD
Journalist of the Year – National Press
- Daniel Keating – UL
- Aaron Gallagher – DCU
- Hayley Halpin – DCU
- Dylan O’Connell – UCC
- Jack Power – UCD
- Cathal Kavannagh – TCD
Features Writer of the Year – Arts and Pop Culture
- Sorcha Ni Cheallaigh – TCD
- Owen Steinberger – UCD
- Killian Down – UCC
- Muireann O’Shea – UCD
- Sean Hayes – UCD
- Gemma Kent – UCC
- Rachel D’Arcy – DIT
- Cáitríona Murphy – DIT
Features Writer of the Year News and Current Affairs
- Jennifer Purcell – UL
- Shauna Bowers – DCU
- Emily Freud – UCC
- Mairin Rua Ni Aodha – UCC
- Colman Moloney – UCC
- Billy Vaughan – UCD
- Orla O’Driscoll – DCU
Iriseoriacht Scríofa
- Aodhán Mac Oireachtaigh -DCU
- Niamh O’Regan – UCD
- Aoife NicGearailt – UCC
- Aine Monk – DCU
- Dónal Ó Catháin – UCD
- Kevin Hughes -DIT
- Erin Lindsay – DIT
- James McAuliffe – UCC
- Aoife NicGearailt – UCC
- Niamh O’Regan – UCD
Colour Writer of the Year
- Caoimhín Reilly – UL
- Aaron Gallagher – DCU
- Bríon Hoban – DCU
- Emer Handly – DCU
- Hassan Baker – UCC
- Killian Down – UCC
- Cormac Dineen – UCC
- Elizabeth Hession – UCC
- Sarah Ryan – UCC
- David Kent – UCD
- Jessica Quinn – UCD
- Sean Hayes – UCD
- Caoimhe Tully – NUIG
- Sorcha Gilheany – University of Westminster
Sports Writer of the Year
- Caoimhín Reilly – UL
- Aidan Geraghty – DCU
- Aaron Gallagher – DCU
- Oisin McQuierns – DCU
- Liam Ashton – DCU
- Alastair Magee – DIT
- Jack O’Toole – DCU
- David Kent – UCD
- Conall Cahill – UCD
- Robert O’Sullivan – UCC
- Martin Healy – UCD
- Dylan O’Connell – UCC
- John Keogh – UL
- Liam McInerney – DIT
Newspaper Layout and Design of the Year
- Evie Kearney, Paul Saunders, Hannah Carr – UL
- Scout Mitchell, Hannah Kelly – DCU
- Michelle Hogan – UL
- Dermot O’Riordan, Oisin Vince Coulter – TCD
- Niamh Haskins, Sinéad Farrelly – DIT
- Louise Flanagan – UCD
- George Hannaford – UCD
- Beth Alexander – UCD
Magazine Layout and Design of the Year
- Molly McNeils – Letterkenny IT
- Niamh Haskins, Michelle Dardis, Niamh Geoghegan – DIT
- Emma Mulholland, Rachel Darcy, Mary Kate Hickey, Conor Mcnally, Liam McInerney, Jack Popeley, Emily Hull, Lily Joyce, Dermot Ó’shea – DIT
- SK. Ahmed Zibnan Shovon, Emmet McCabe – GCD
- Una Harty – TCD
- Colm Cahalane – UCC
- Robert O’Sullivan – UCC
- Rachel Graham – TCD
- Otwo (Louise Flanagan) – UCD
European Commission Award
- Ryan McDonnell – NUIM
- Annabel O’Rourke – TCD
- Eoin McSweeney – UCC
- Brian Donnelly – UCD
- Julia O’Reilly – UCD
- Ruth Murphy – UCD
- Evan Smith – UCC
- Billy Vaughan – UCD
- Samuel McNally – UCC
- Colm Duffy and Brendan Hallahan – NUIG
- Michaela Keating – UL
- Jack Popeley – DIT
Journalism Relating to Road Safety Award
- Liam Kennedy – UCC
- John Anderson Jnr – GCD
- Ciara Phelan – UL
- Swathe Shanmugaraj – GCD
- Eithne Dodd – UCD
- Michelle Beazley – UCC
- Cailean Coffey – UCC
- Mary Collins – UCC
- Cian Carton – UCD
- Daniel Bright – GCD
- Peter Comiskey – GCD
Science Education Writer of the Year
- Shauna Bowers – DCU
- Louise Flanagan – UCD
- Eithne Dodd – UCD
- Ciara Dinneen – UCC
- Evan Smith – UCC
- Billy Vaughan – UCD
- Aisling Brennan – UCD
- Mary Collins – UCC
- Danielle Crowley – UCD
- Aaron Poole – UCD
- Conor McGovern – UCD
- Aoife Hardesty – UCD
- Eoin Connor – TCD
Short Story of the Year
- Jennifer Purcell – UL
- John Anderson Jnr – GCD
- Bríon Hoban – DCU
- Hannah Kingston – DCU
- Laura Calleja – GCD
- Elizabeth Hession – UCC
- Lauren Mulvihill – UCC
- Sophie Ellen McKenzie – UCC
- Evan Smith – UCC
- Ause Abdellhaq – UCD
Film Script of the Year
- Eleanor Bell – DKIT
- Meaghan McKeon Joyce – GMIT
- Eimear Callaghan – DIT
- Andrew Roberts, Daniel Keating – UL
- Florence Bradish – DIT
- Daniel McFarlane – TCD
- Niamh Bryson – DIT
Short Film of the Year
- Sean Wrenn – LCFE
- Meaghan Mckeon Joyce, Matthew Blayney – GMIT
- Eimear Callaghan – DIT
- Adam Duggan, Colm Maguire – Colaiste Dhulaigh
- Aaron Stapleton, Rachel Murphy – Colaiste Dhulaigh
- Gary White, José Lora – Colaiste Dhulaigh
- Jack Lunt, Andrew Galea – NUIG
- Sinead Boland, Joe Davies – GMIT
- Ciara Malone, Maitiú Ó Casaide – WIT
- Robert Morrisey – GCD
Short Animation of the Year
- David Delaney, Kishan Nayar, Stephen Poole, Niamh Skelly, Daniel McGuire, Jonathan Carroll – BCFE
- Iara Harris – BCFE
- Shauna Cullen, Ger Smith, Chris Craig, Hannah Cleary, Mark Brennan – BCFE
- Sean Cunningham, Paul Kavanagh, Padraic Byrne, Nicole Storck – BCFE
- Aoife O’Kelly – DIT
- Sinead Boland, Joe Davies – GMIT
- Patryk Sarach, Antonio Blanco, Diego Beretta, Mark Buckley – Pulse College
- Brigette Heffernan – Colaiste Dhulaigh
- Florence Bradish – DIT
- Sinead O’Regan – BCFE
- Gráinne Hegarty – BCFE
TV Production of the Year
- Robert Cunningham, Megan Leanna Cleary, Sean McIntyre, Chris Behan – LCFE
- Paul Byrne – DIT
- Karl Hampton, Peter Clarke, Nichola Kearney, Phillip Adams, Lisa Keogh, Michelle Carroll – Colaiste Dhulaigh
- Adam Keane, Bella Purcell, Daniel Jackson, Mungo Harris, Sarah Coller, Molly Flynn, Alice McLoughlin, Katie Cogan – TCD
- Emily Hurley, Amy Campbell, Fauve Chapman, Niamh Mullally, Mark O’Beirne, Jamie Carney – Colaiste Dhulaigh
- Shirley Donlon, Ciara Moran, Aaron McElroy – DCU
- Laura Leonard – GCD
Leiriuchain Teilifise i nGaeilge
- Cian O’Halloran – WIT
- Sarah McCoy – WIT
- Ailbhe Nic Dhonnacha and Ailbhe Courtney – WIT
- Ciara Malone and Maitiú Ó Casaide – WIT
- Yvonne Weafer – WIT
- Pat Lacken and Deirdre Orme – WIT
- Cliona Máirtin – WIT
- P.J Ó Cualáin – NUIG
Blog/Vlog of the Year
- Hannah Kingston – DCU
- Hajar AkL – DIT
- Grace Cullen – Mary Immaculate College
- Aaron Gallagher – DCU
- Lauren Cassidy – GCD
- UCD Student Ambassadors – UCD
- Bríon Hoban – DCU
Website of the Year
- Evan Smith – UCC
- Aaron Gallagher – DCU
- The University Observer – UCD
- Colm Cahalane – UCC
- Michelle Hogan – UL
- Laura Leonard – GCD
- Miriam Walsh
- Kevin Worrall – UCD
- Hannah LeMass – DIT
Sports Photographer of the Year
- David Lowsley – GCD
- Barnett Antony Gomez – GCD
- Camille Lombard – UCD
- Karl Hughes – LCFE
- Mira Kalliomaki – GCD
- Jack Lyons – GCD
- Chiara Corbatto – GCD
- Nick McDonogh – LCFE
- Darragh Culhane – DCU
- John Carroll – GCD
Radio DJ of the Year
- Diarmuid O’Brien – NUIM
- Daniel McGettrick – UCD
- Mathew Kirk – Queens University
- Oliver Reid – UCD
- Rob O’Neill – UCC
- Fiona McCuskey – GCD
- Marc O’Driscoll – CIT
- Sean Butler- UCD
Radio Documentary of the Year
- Erin Meehan Breen – NUIG
- David Phelan – IADT
- Eadaoin Fitzmaurice – GCD
- Gemma Kavanagh – DIT
- Niamh Magee – DIT
- Sorcha McManigan – DIT
- John McAuffile – DIT
- Ciara Pollock – DIT
Radio Production of the Year Arts and Features
- Aaron Gallagher – DCU
- Nell Hennesy, Christian Tierney – UCD
- Gavin O’Callaghan, Enda Coll, Brien McGinn, Jack O’Toole, Billy Keenan, Oisin McQueirns – DCU
- Ellen Fitzpatrick – DIT
- Erin Lindsay – DIT
- Niamh Magee – DIT
- Conor Shields, Hajar Akl, Mary-Kate Findon, Cara Croke, Sean Meehan, Rebekah Tunstead – DIT
- Emmet Banahan, Shovy Zibran, Jordan Sweeney, Sadbh Maguire, John Ross Delahunt, Matthieu Dumas, Jimmy Campbell and Conor Fay – GCD
Radio Production of the Year News and Current Affairs
- Aaron Gallagher, Paul Dwyer, Hayley Halpin, Rebecca Lumley and Kyle Ewald- DCU
- Robert O’Sullivan – UCC
- Michael James Boland – UCC
- Declan Mills & Rob Cross – UL
- Padraig Ryan, Brendan O’Donohue – GCD
- Jonathan Byrne, Eamonn O’ Keeffe, Francis Roche – UCD
- Sorcha McManigan – DIT
- Stephen Murphy – DCU
Radio Journalist of the Year
- Ciarán Brennan, Michael O’Malley, Daniel O’Dwyer, Jack McCarthy, Eoin Murphy, Jamie Murphy, and Eoghan Coffey – UCD
- Daniel O’Connor – DCU
- Michaela Peters, John Mullane – UCC
- Tomas Dubhghlas – DCU
- Rob O’Neill – UCC
- Chris Leneghan, Jack Donnelly – Queens University
- Stephen Murphy – DCU
- Michael Jordan – Queens University
- Sinéad Farrelly – DIT
Raidio Trí Gaeilge
- James Hickey and Seán Ó Laoghaire – UCC
- P.J Ó Cualáin – NUIG
- Ailbhe Ní Riain – DIT
- Aindriú de Paor – NUIG
- Aisling Ní Ghealbháin, Daniel Ó hIarfhlaith, Alex Ní Philibín – UCC
- Oisín Ó Catháin – UCD
- Wuraola Majekodunmi – IADT