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Rory Kirby.
A TRALEE man has come third in a prestigious radio drama awards.
Rory Kirby’s play ‘The Gypsy Girl’ made the top three in the RTÉ PJ O’Connor Radio Drama Awards which has been running for over 30 years and celebrates the best in new Irish writing.
“I am beyond delighted to have placed third in the for my play The Gypsy Girl. RTÉ Drama On One will now record and air the play,” said Rory, who also receives a prize of €3,000.
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Set in Ireland in the 1990’s, The Gypsy Girl tells the story of the unstoppable fallout from a one-off, unplanned sexual encounter, between a young married traveller girl and a settled man.
“Thanks to everyone on the PJ O’Connor Radio Drama Awards team and also the judges, Jesper Bergmann, Stihi Ilinca, Soila Valkama,” said Rory. “Congratulations to the winner Robert Barrett, runner up Kenneth Sweeney and of course everyone shortlisted. Finally well done to everybody who sat down, wrote a play and entered it in the competition, keep it up and best of luck with all of your writing in the future!”
Rory is no stranger to media awards success, having filmed, edited and directed ‘Rockumentary’, the film charting Austin Stacks county championship win in 2014 which won a GAA McNamee Award.
