Irish blog awards
That was good fun last night, wasn’t it?
I’m very proud to have won Most Humorous Post and the overall Best Blog prize for the second year running. The amount and variety of people there is a great testament to the Irish blogging scene. Short, tall, fat, thin, old, young, mohawky, bald, pregnant, not pregnant – they were all there. It showed that it’s not just a pastime for nerds (although there were some nerds there. You know who you are, oh yes).
The way it’s grown in the last 12 months has been remarkable and I’m sure that the awards last year did as much to give it a kick in the arse to help it expand as anything else. Hopefully this year’s awards will do the same.
I think what it’s shown is that anyone can blog (even fucking Grannymar) about anything they like as often or as little as they like. Forget bullshit posts about the ‘rules of blogging’. What’s great about it is that you just make of it what you want to make of it. Fuck convention.
Congratulations to everyone involved last night. To all the nominees, the winners, to Rick O’Shea for his presentation – although I never did get that fucking Um Bongo, you cunt – to the sponsors, Damien (very nice touch by Bernie to give the Best Contribution Award to Damien – thoroughly deserved too) and everyone else who worked so hard to make the night a success.
For me the whole thing was made complete by seeing Tom Raftery dance. That man has some moves, let me tell you.
Well done again to everyone. See you all next year.
March 4th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
I was catching up with the awards using twitter last night, and was impressed and glad that Bernie giving Damien that award – a ton of people had nominated him for that and he didn’t even longlist himself for it, the spanner.
Did Tom Raftery wear that slinky little Gucci number he’d been bragging about all week?
March 4th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Congrats and stuff, Twenty!
I missed the whole thing – Saturday night being bathnight, I was washing my heir.
Is there a full list of winners posted anywhere yet so I get the congrats and stuff thing done with them too?
March 4th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Winners here – http://www.mamanpoulet.com/?p=113
I’m sure Tom’s was a Chanel number, Kav.
March 4th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Many Congratulations, Twenty Major.
It was a great relief to see you
in the flesh and see that
I do not have to post to your
official blog
with tips on
how to moisturize.
Well done, again!
Anouilh
March 4th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Links got in a Twist there. Sorry.
March 4th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Congrats Sir, I want video footage of any embarassing dance moves, falling over or fights. Colm Bracken was horsing into the whiskey so my money was on him causing trouble.
March 4th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Congratulations Twenty – when you got up on that stage there was a collective intake of breath wondering if we’d have a Colin Farrell moment…shame we didn’t come to think of it. Your reputation is in tatters after last night cos you’re a very, very nice gentleman after all…;)
March 4th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
What’s a Colin Farrell moment?
Sinead – Tom’s dancing was awesome. Think of Christopher Walken in that Fat Boy Slim video crossed with the dwarf from Twin Peaks.
March 4th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Well done Mister Major. It sounds like a great night although it is disappointing to hear you’re “a very, very nice gentleman after all” ;)
March 4th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Well done on the awards Twenty, although I fear you may have let your angry bastard image slip a bit; punching someone in the face would have don’t it a world of good.
March 4th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
A colin farrell moment would have been a combination of liberal use of the C word and hit of what the slippery orange ballcock is suggesting ;) Like I said, you’re a lovely, lovely chap.
March 4th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
We apent the night talking about how buff you are. Sexy Major, mo’ like.
Well deserved, Twenty. Well deserved. :)
March 4th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Congrats Twenty! You deserved the awards!
March 4th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Congrats twenty on the wins, well deserved. And a pleasure to meet you in the flesh. I am working on the picture of you pooing in the alexander so your reputation remains intact.
March 4th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Congratulations Twenty. Well deserved!
March 4th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
well done twenty. was there any photos taken??
just read toms sporting almanac….the one that won the sports blog award…what a load of toss. it is all about football…..fuck all else…..
March 4th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
well done twenty, long time reader. deserved.
coincidentally this weekend that spunk-rag of a magazine, the sunday independent’s “life” has a number of disparaging comments about bloggers including an entire article about them, calling us all nerds and idiots or something.
Now, this coming from a magazine who’s cover story is about south county dublin “bebo babes” and claims “rosanna davidson and her bebo crew scandalised the nation last week with their online antics”, is fucking rich.
incidentally i missed this national scandal. must have been to busy reading real news. doh!
March 4th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Being insulted by the Sindo is like being bitten by a toothless dog, lots of mildly irritating dribble and no real pain inflicted.
March 4th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
No one else stood a chance! Well done Twenty, well done!
March 4th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
BTW Twenty is this the sort of Tom image that has been etched on your mind http://www.flickr.com/photos/81021515@N00/410178179/
March 4th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Bravo, Mr. Connery.
Em, I mean Twenty, of course … yeah, well done.
March 4th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Well Done
March 4th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
Good one Twenty well deserved and thanks for the word on “you pay taxes”, glad to hear someone liked it. Now, if I can only retrieve the ‘cam I secreted in the FF wash room in the Dail I could have some really good material for next year.
March 4th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
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March 4th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Twenty. Who the hell are you knobgobbling in the Sunday Turbine??? They love you man. In fact the ST is how I heard about you in the first place, many moons ago…..
March 4th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Well done Twenty, and good to talk to you briefly.
March 4th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Cheers everyone.
Dogz – was there something in the Turbine?
McA – that picture is classic.
March 4th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Thought you may like it, dont know how Tom may feel about it!
March 4th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Sunday Tribune, FRONT page no less of the Business Section, Richard Delevan (the token yank reporter) headlines, “Blogging gold for potty mouthed Twenty Major”, with your chinaman picture (Mr. Poo?).
Gift eh? You’re part of the establishment now man. Might as well go order the convertible Bentley.
March 5th, 2007 at 12:08 am
My favourite moment of the night is still the incredulity you were greeted with when you came up to accept your awards… They really were expecting someone with fangs, six legs and breathing pure evil ;-)
Brilliant to finally meet the face behind the pooing Chinaman…
March 5th, 2007 at 12:12 am
If I’d known there was no Um Bongo it would all have been very different.
March 5th, 2007 at 12:13 am
Good on ya T. Pity I didn’t get to have a natter, I was busy trying to figure out how to get the screwcap off a mini-bottle of wine. I shudda stuck to pints, might have lasted longer.
March 5th, 2007 at 12:23 am
Cheers Conor. You deserve the award for your bravery!
March 5th, 2007 at 12:45 am
7 pints in 7 hours – my head still hurts. Tom’s dancing was not as good as those second-lifers they danced all night – every DJ should have their own entourage on second life for when the real lifers wont dance like Tom! yiz were great.
March 5th, 2007 at 2:42 am
Congrats Mr Major. So who’s got the pics of ya then? Spill or die!! :P
We’ll put a bounty on your noggin, so we will.
March 5th, 2007 at 7:34 am
I was dancing?
Twenty turned up?
Awards?
Ohhhh my head. I’ll never touch the stuff again!
March 5th, 2007 at 8:20 am
Congrats Twenty.
Well deserved!
March 5th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Didn’t even one of you remember to take a camera!!?? D’oh! You’ve got to understand my frustration – I am whole hemisphere away, no pints, no dancing – just print media salt mines…
March 6th, 2007 at 10:35 am
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March 7th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Did anyone take a pic of twenty
March 10th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
post fuck and cunt a lot and win an award? could i not just post of 20 tokens from a corn flakes box?
June 28th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
twenty are you still gonna posts blogs when your rich and more famous from your book deals???