Kaya Flynn of Radio Kerry with her Gold award at the IMROs last night.RADIO Kerry had another golden night at the annual IMRO Radio Awards at the Lyrath Estate Hotel in Kilkenny while a Tralee woman was also a winner with a Dublin-based station.
Taking place last night, the station won three Gold awards out of their amazing 12 nominations, the highest number of nominations for a local or regional station this year.
Niamh Daly from Blennerville won Gold in the community social action category, for Many Voices, One Kingdom and ‘Words Matter’ and a Silver award for her programme ‘New Moves’.
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.Kaya Flynn’s Travels Through a Kingdom won the Gold in the Magazine Programme category, in which Joe McGill’s The Saturday Supplement was also nominated.
The students of the Radio Kerry / Kerry College Digital Journalism, Podcasting & Radio course, run by Connie Broderick and Joe McGill, won Gold in the Short Feature category.
Meanwhile Tralee native and 98FM presenter, Leanne Hanafin, won Radio DJ of the Year and Kerry native Katie Hannon won Gold as part of the RTE Radio 1 Drivetime team in the Current Affairs Programme category.
There were also Silver awards for the Radio Kerry news team for ‘It started with a phone call – The Kerry CAMHS Scandal’ in the News Story/Event category; Radio Kerry Weekend Sport in the Sports Programme Local Regional category; ‘Good Luck Jessie’ in the On Air Competition/Promotion category and #ProudOfJessie in the Digital and Social Innovation category.
Joe McGill won a Bronze award for ‘Courage – The Saturday Supplement’ in the Magazine Programme category while Radio Kerry won a Bronze in the Local Station of the Year category.
The awards mark the very best in Irish radio broadcasting, recognising those who have made contributions over the past year.
