by IMAGE
23rd Oct 2015
23rd Oct 2015
Though the pre-event promotion was rather thin on the ground this year, perhaps given that they’ve now split the IFTAs in two, last night’s telly awards went down a storm. For the first time since Love/Hate came barreling onto our screens, only to scoop every award imaginable, it was time for another Irish production to reign supreme. Of course it’s not that Love/Hate lost out, it’s just that it’s finished. Excuse us while we shed a tear. Last night it was all about new TV3’soap drama Red Rock, who brought home gongs for best ‘Soap or continuing drama’, best director and the people’s choice award. Elsewhere, the man behind the head-scratchingly, internationally successful Mrs Brown’s Boys (sorry, we just don’t get it), Brendan O’Carroll, received a standing ovation as he collected his Lifetime Achievement Award, presented to him by none other than Uncle Gaybo, the grandfather of Irish TV.
It was great to see Sharon Horgan awarded for her brilliant writing in Catastrophe, in which she stars alongside Twitter’s funniest man, Rob Delaney. Scan the full list of winners below and browse our gallery of red carpet appearances above!
REALITY
Connected
DOCUMENTARY SERIES
The High Hopes Choir
DOCUMENTARY SINGLE
Close to Evil
SOAP & CONTINUING DRAMA
Red Rock
NEWS
BBC Newsline: The Death of Ian Paisley
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Inside Bungalow 3 – RT? Investigations Unit
SPECIALIST FACTUAL
Cumann na mBan – Mn? na R?abhl?ide
SPORTS
Arkle – The Legend Lives On
LIVE EVENT
Fleadh TV
CHILDRENS/YOUNG PEOPLES – LIVE ACTION
Our Farm
ANIMATION – CHILDRENS/YOUNG PEOPLES
Lily’s Driftwood Bay
IRISH LANGUAGE
Corp is Anam
DIRECTOR SOAP/COMEDY
Lisa Mulcahy, Red Rock
WRITER SOAP / COMEDY
Sharon Horgan, Catastrophe
DIRECTOR TELEVISION
Liam McGrath, Dolores Keane – A Storm in the Heart
SOUND TELEVSION
John Brennan and Mark Henry, Ceolchuairt
EDITING TELEVISION
Mick Mahon, Rough Rider
CAMERA TELEVISION
Colm Whelan, Aille an Ufais/A Terrible Beauty
PEOPLE?S CHOICE TV SHOW OF THE YEAR
Red Rock