Category 1 - Print/Online Journalism (daily)

• The Grey Zone of GAA Vetting. Cianan Brennan, Irish Examiner

• Taking back the power – Three survivors of rape tell of their tough decision to waive their right to anonymity so the perpetrators could be named. Catherine Fegan, Irish Independent.

• Explainer: Why was McGregor case heard in a civil court and what does that mean?Valerie Flynn & Sinéad O’Carroll. The Journal.

• How a lack of crash data is hampering Ireland’s road safety aims. Jack McCarron & Mark Coughlan. RTÉ Prime Time.

• Stardust Inquests. Sean Murray, Irish Examiner.

• Behind the headlines and decisions from the courts. Muiris Ó Cearbhaill, The Journal.

• Surrogacy and IVF schemes will not cover all. Alison O’Reilly, Irish Examiner.

• Family and Care Referendums: What will you be asked to vote on? And what exactly is a durable relationship? Órla Ryan, The Journal.

• Running up against planning law. Niall Sargent, The Currency.

• ‘Upper end of inappropriate behaviour’: Prof Philip Nolan and the SFI independent investigation. Fionnán Sheahan, Irish Independent.

Category 2 - Print/Online Journalism (Sunday)

• Assault victim Natasha O’Brien prepares to return to court to face her attacker. Ali Bracken, Sunday Independent.

• Conviction of James Kilroy for murdering his wife Valerie French is not the end of the legal road for the French family. Ali Bracken, Sunday Independent.

• How Escort-Ireland continues to attract ordinary men. Julieanne Corr, The Sunday Times

• The number of pregnant women in Irish jails reaches a record high amid overcrowding and staff shortages. Julieanne Corr, The Sunday Times.

• Inside the investigation that uncovered the crimes of the UK’s worst catfisher. Patrick O'Donoghue, The Sunday Times.

• ‘McGregor has scarred Nikita for life, says mother’. Patrick O'Donoghue, The Sunday Times.

• OPW missed two key chances to buy land at centre of Castletown dispute. Laura Roddy, The Sunday Times.

• The Toxic Culture Pushing Irish Lawyers Over the Edge. Catherine Sanz, Business Post.

• Untangling the Wilton Group in a row over pensions money. Barry J Whyte. The Sunday Times.

• Ireland, Coke and Uncle Sam – Inside the Drogheda firm Coca-Cola used to ‘hide astronomical profits’ and funnel billions to a tax haven. Killian Woods, Business Post.

Category 3 - Print/Online Journalism (feature)

• Court can be harrowing experience for victims of domestic abuse. Richard Canny,Roscommon Herald.

• What’s driving the surge in road deaths? Valerie Flynn & Daragh Brophy. The Journal.

• Game over: How Europe won its €13bn case against Ireland and Apple. Thomas Hubert, The Currency.

• Pride Before a Fall: Part 1 and 2. Tom Lyons, The Currency.

• Legacy: the lesson of history teaches us that it is the powerful who control the story. Freya McClements. The Irish Times.

• The Toxic Culture Pushing Irish Lawyers Over the Edge. Catherine Sanz, Business Post.

• The Artist and the Waste Magnate. Niall Sargent, The Currency.

• The Sweetman Files. Niall Sargent, The Currency.

• Field of Broken Dreams. Mark Tighe & Marie Crowe, Sunday Independent.

• Ireland, Coke and Uncle Sam – Inside the Drogheda firm Coca-Cola used to ‘hide astronomical profits’ and funnel billions to a tax haven. Killian Woods, Business Post.

Category 4 - Print/Online Journalism (local)

• Judge Mary Fahy Feature – Reflections on a lifetime ruling from the bench. Dara Bradley, The Connacht Tribune.

• Anomalies at Cork charity: ‘Serious issues’ noted at service assisting crime victims. Amy Campbell, The Echo.

• Court can be harrowing experience for victims of domestic abuse. Richard Canny, Roscommon Herald.

• 19 years ago, Terence Wheelock went into Store Street Garda Station alive. Stephanie Costello, Dublin Inquirer.

• Bereaved Mother Seeks GSOC Reform. Dan Danaher, Clare Champion.

• Healing the harm with restorative justice. James Fogarty, Roscommon Herald.

• The time to justice. Chris McNulty, Donegal Democrat.

• Beautiful Boy. Donal O'Regan, Limerick Leader.

• ‘This is not justice’. Donal O'Regan, Limerick Leader.

• Man found not guilty by reason of insanity for explosion that rocked Waterford city. Shannon Sweeney, Waterford News and Star.

Category 5 - Broadcast Journalism (radio – national)

• Everything You Need to Know About Conor McGregor’s Court Defeat. Frank Greaney, The Anton Savage Show – Newstalk.

• Heart and Soul Horses. Nicoline Greer, RTÉ Documentary on One.

• Do jurors need counselling supports?Dee King, Andrea Gilligan, Caoimhe Harney & Ross Leahy,

  Lunchtime Live – Newstalk.

• Survivors of the Sex Trade. Sarah Madden, The Pat Kenny Show – Newstalk.

• Crashing the cabinet: The legal challenge to Super Junior Ministers. Justin McCarthy & Margaret Curley, This Week – RTÉ Radio 1.

• Darren Coleman apology from HSE. Miriam O’Callaghan & Deirdre Ní Fhloinn, Sunday with Miriam – RTÉ Radio 1.

• Running with the Prisoners – Inside the Mountjoy Prison Park Run. Brian O'Connell, Today with Claire Byrne – RTÉ Radio 1.

• Bram Stoker and the Petty Sessions. Marése O’Sullivan & Tommy Graham, Talking History – Newstalk.

• The Creation of the Irish Courts. Marése O’Sullivan & Patrick Geoghegan, Talking History – Newstalk

• The Istanbul Convention: Is the State meeting its legal obligations for domestic violence? Jessica Woodlock, The Pat Kenny Show – Newstalk.

Category 6 - Broadcast Journalism (radio – local)

• Explaining the rules of sentencing. Gillian Devlin, Limerick Today - Live 95.

• Legal Matters on Midlands Today. Sinéad Hubble & Will Faulkner, Midlands 103.

• The Judicial System and how it works. Kevin McDermott & Joe Finnegan, Shannonside Northern Sound FM.

• Don’t Leave a Legal Mess Behind – The Importance of a Will. JohnPaul McNamara, Cork Today – C103.

• The Journey. JohnPaul McNamara, Cork Today – C103

• Getting Married in Ireland and Abroad. JohnPaul McNamara & Patricia Messinger, Cork Today –C103.

• The Impact of a Victim Impact Statement. Mairead Twohig & Patricia Messinger. Cork Today - C103.

Category 7 - Broadcast Journalism (podcast)

• Episode 169 with Andrew McGinley. Eoin Brennan, Terence Power, Calvin O’Brien & Siobhan Walsh, Talking Bollox Podcast – GoLoud.

• Cathal Crotty case: are judges out of touch with the public? Declan Conlon, Bernice Harrison, Aideen Finnegan, Suzanne Brennan, John Casey & Sorcha Pollak, In The News Podcast – The Irish Times.

• The Stardust Tragedy.Michael Doyle, Neil Cotter, Damien Lane & Fiona Wynne, The Irish Sun Podcast.

• ‘Wanted’: Gardai release images of 99 Dublin riot suspects, is it a worrying precedent? Garrett Mulhall, Fionnán Sheahan, Robin Schiller, Carlo Salizzo, Ian Doyle, Hugh Keenan & 

  Rory Bowens, The Indo Daily – Irish Independent.

• The Fifth Court Episode 100 - Mr. Justice Peter Kelly. Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL, The Fifth Court.

• The Fifth Court Episode 103 - The Lucy Letby Case. Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL, The Fifth Court.

• How does sentencing work in Ireland? Nicky Ryan, Laura Byrne & Sinead O’Carroll, The Explainer Podcast – The Journal.

• How Do Judges Decide Jail Terms? Seán Defoe. Let Me Explain – Newstalk

• The Criminal Justice System. Andrew Lowth, Let Me Explain – Newstalk. 

• Nikita Hand wins David and Goliath case against Conor McGregor. Mark Tighe & Joe Molloy Indo Sport.

Category 8 - Broadcast Journalism (TV/video)

• Leathered: Violence in Irish Schools. John Downes, Eanya Gallagher, Darragh Byrne & Colm O'Callaghan, RTÉ Documentary on One.

• Stardust: Episode Three: Truth. Máire Kearney, Shauna McGreevy & Rhenda Sheedy, RTÉ Documentary on One

• Michael Lynn: The Fugitive. Trevor Birney, Andrew Tully, Sean Mullan, Jim O'Hagan & Michael O'Farrell, RTÉ Documentary on One.

• Women in Law. Eoin Ryan & Mary Fanning, RTÉ Nationwide.

• Downfall: The Trial of Conor McGregor. David Tiernan & Nicole Gernon, Virgin Media One & Virgin Media Play.

Category 9 - Court Reporting (print/online)

• ‘I can’t live like this’: Desperate parents ask courts to protect them from aggressive adult children.

  Mary Carolan, The Irish Times.

• ‘I know what happened in that room’: the full story of the Conor McGregor case. Mary Carolan,  The Irish Times.

• Tried and convicted: Where did it all go wrong for Brendan Mullin? Francesca Comyn, The Currency.

• Nikita Hand v Conor McGregor: The moment the mask slipped. Catherine Fegan, Irish Independent

• Solicitor Cahir O’Higgins jailed for breaking lawyer’s nose in ‘thuggish’ attack. Isabel Hayes, The Irish Times

• Brendan Mullin trial hears his obfuscation to gardaí was ‘like a magician’. Eoin O’Hare, Business Post.

• The tragic death of Aoife Johnston. Alison O’Reilly, Irish Examiner.

• Key factors that may have swayed the jury in Nikita Hand case against Conor McGregor. Shane Phelan, Irish Independent.

• How one woman took on the world’s most “notorious” fighter and triumphed. Mark Tighe, Sunday Independent.

Category 10 - Court Reporting (broadcast)

• Maura Fay spends a day in the Family Court. Maura Fay. Today with Claire Byrne – RTÉ Radio 1.

• Calls For Those Who Murder Their Partners to Be Stripped of Their Parental Rights. Nicole Gernon

  Virgin Media News

• Encrypted Crime. Sallyanne Godson & Barry Cummins, RTÉ Prime Time.

• Lives behind the lists – a day in special care hearings. Brian O'Connell & John Byrne. Today with Claire Byrne – RTÉ Radio 1.

• The State inquiry into the Bill Kenneally case – what have we learned so far? Nicky Ryan, Laura Byrne, Eoghan Dalton & Sinead O'Carroll, The Explainer – The Journal. 

Category 11 - Human Rights/Social Justice Reporting (print/online)

• 19 years ago, Terence Wheelock went into Store Street Garda Station alive. Stephanie Costello, Dublin Inquirer.

• Domestic violence victims forced into homelessness by lack of refuge spaces. Ellen Coyne, Irish Independent.

• Over 100 women murdered in Ireland since 2012 – and a gap in data on gendered violence. Maria Delaney & Patricia Devlin, The Journal Investigates.

• Schools abuse victims demand justice: ‘I didn’t talk to anyone about it. I just carried it  all inside’.Catherine Fegan, Irish Independent.

• Declassified papers reveal truth behind 1979 Glen of Imaal blast that killed 3 boys. Cormac Fitzgerald, The Journal Investigates.

• Failure to Protect: Children removed from family home subjected to controversial ‘immersion therapy’. Peter McGuire, The Journal Investigates.

• Why incarceration is not suitable for the mentally ill. Ann Murphy, Irish Examiner.

• ‘Eight hours of volunteering?’: Church of Scientology ‘exploited’ asylum seekers in Dublin. Sorcha Pollak & Conor Gallagher, The Irish Times.

• How the ‘Lost Children of Greece’ are fighting for citizenship and access to their 

  records. Órla Ryan, The Journal

• The Irish State and Israel. Niall Sargent, The Currency.

Category 12 – Human Rights/Social Justice Reporting (broadcast)

• “Unregulated Care: Babies in Emergency Accommodation”. Louise Byrne, Colm Kirwan, Eoin O'Connor & Jeanine Hurley, RTÉ Prime Time.

• Ireland’s Education Crisis, Mairéad Cleary & Daire Furlong, Virgin Media One.

• How are character references used in the criminal justice system. Maura Fay, Today with Claire Byrne – RTÉ Radio 1

• Spotlight: I Am Not OK. Tara Mills, John O’Kane, Gwyneth Jones & Chris Thornton. BBC Northern Ireland.

• Testimony. Aoife Kelleher, Farah Abushwesha and Rachel Lysaght. Underground Films & Rocliffe.

• Murder of a GAA Chairman. Trevor Birney, Andrew Tully, Sean Mullan & Jim O'Hagan RTÉ Documentary on One.

• 13 on TikTok. Kate McDonald & Colm Kirwan, RTÉ Prime Time.

• Starved of Care: Desperate calls for improved eating disorder services. Sheila Naughton, RTÉ Morning Ireland.

• Navigating the court system as a sexual abuse survivor. Dymphna Nugent, WLR.

• Girls in Green. Frank Shouldice, Marie Crowe & Mark Tighe, RTÉ Investigates.

Category 13 – Environmental Law/Climate Justice Reporting 

• The EU’s Nature Restoration Law and Ireland. Philip Boucher-Hayes, Eileen Heron, Ella McSweeney & Hannah Quinn-Mulligan, RTÉ Radio 1.

• Coolglass: The wind farm case that may decide whether Ireland’s climate laws have teeth. Alice Chambers, The Currency.

• Foxes, badgers and hares sold as live bait in underground wildlife trade. Patricia Devlin, The Journal Investigates.

• Spotlight: The Sewage Scandal. Patrick Fee, Elaine Forrester, Gwyneth Jones & Chris Thornton. BBC Northern Ireland.

• Ireland’s data centres turning to fossil fuels after maxing out country’s electricity grid. Conor O'Carroll & Pablo Jiménez Arandia. The Journal Investigates.

• In dodging a decision on data centres’ access to gas, energy regulator raises new questions.

  Laura Roddy, Business Post.

• A fee for all in legal transparency battles. Niall Sargent. The Currency. The Peat Industry and the Law, Niall Sargent, The Currency.

• Troubled Water, Oonagh Smyth, Colm Kirwin, Shirley Bradshaw, Eoin O'Connor & James Dalton, RTÉ Prime Time.

• Hedgerow destruction and badger baiting: Parks rangers on the beat to protect wildlife. Barry J Whyte. The Irish Times

• Chasing The Sun. Conor Wilson, Fiona Donnellan & James Halford. RTÉ Prime Time.

Category 14 – International Justice Reporting

• 500% increase in migrant children arriving alone in Ireland claiming asylum. Patricia Devlin, Maria Delaney and the Lost in Europe Team, The Journal Investigates.

• The war on human rights in the Middle East. Hannah McCarthy, The Irish Times & The Journal.

• How Donald Trump and the US Supreme Court undermined American democracy. Marion McKeone, Business Post.

• Inside the investigation that uncovered the crimes of the UK’s worst catfisher. Patrick O'Donoghue, The Sunday Times.

• ‘The more you pay the cartel the shorter you walk’: How politics has redrawn the US border. Enda O’Dowd, The Irish Times.

• Babies for sale on Facebook. Alison O’Reilly, Irish Examiner.

• For the Sake of Maia: A Bereaved Father’s Campaign to Hold Social Media Giants Accountable. Jerry O’Sullivan & Treasa Murphy, Radio Kerry.

• Debunked: Tommy Robinson was jailed for lying, not ‘for telling the truth’ as Elon Musk claims. Shane Raymond, The Journal.

• The Irish State and Israel. Niall Sargent, The Currency.

Category 15 – Newcomer of the Year

• Bartira Augelli, Dublin Inquirer

• Michael Bolton, Breakingnews.ie

• Amy Campbell, The Echo

• Mairead Maguire, The Journal

• Dionne Meehan, Donegal News

• Conor O'Carroll, The Journal Investigates

• Jessica Woodlock, Bauer Media Group

Category 16 – Student Journalism

• Representation and Inclusion. Arpita Chowdhury, College Tribune & University Observer.

• Coverage of DPP vs. Diarmuid Rossa Phelan. Stephen Conneely, Trinity News.

• Legal Explainer Series with Trinity News. Conor Healy, Trinity News.

• Accelerating Action International Women’s Day 2025. Ruth McCarthy & Louise Enright, Flirt FM.

• Justice For Joe. Holly O’Sullivan, Emma MacCarthy, Ailish Armstrong & Erin Stevens, Limerick Voice

• #JusticeForJoe. Alison Reeves, Limerick Voice