PLEASE NOTE- THIS LIST CONTAINS THE SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES AND NOT THE NOMINEES
EPA
- Jody Druce – Trinity
- Dara O’Leary – BCFE
- Rebecca Graham – University of Limerick
- Liam Coates – DCU
- Fleur Howe – Queens
- Grainne Saunders – Colaiste Dhulaigh
- Kate Burke – Trinity
- Cormac Watson – Trinity
- Tom O’Connor – NUIG
- Mairead Maguire – Trinity
Features Writer of the Year – Arts and Pop Culture
- Khushi Jain – Trinity
- Oona Kauppi – Trinity
- Gale Aitken – Trinity
- Ellen Kenny – Trinity
- Abigail Cardiff – DCU
- Maeve Alice O’Keefe – UCC
- David Cendón Garcia – NUIG
- Ronan Keohane – UCC
- Aron MacRaghalliagh – Ulster University
- Jessica O’Brien – UCC
Features Writer of the Year- News & Current Affairs
- Gillian O’Neill – Trinity
- Matthew Mulrooney, Róisín Elizabeth Cowan, Rhiannon Mulcaire – NUIG
- Ellen Kenny – Trinity
- Grace Gageby – Trinity
- Kirsty King – Queens
- Naoise D’Arcy – Trinity
- Edward Ferrin – Queens
- Sarah O’Mahony – UCC
- Sophie Finn – UCD
- Michael Bergin – UCD
Film Documentary of the Year
- Juan Manuel Hernandez Sanchez – Maynooth University – No Peat No Heat
- Anisha-Cheyenne Rice – Tu Dublin City Campus – The Art of Living Differently
- Cian Cusack – WIT – Amharclann na nDaoine | The People’s Theatre
- Arthur Lopes, Adriana Ribeiro, Ingrid Machado, Ying Qi Loh, Ayman Scuffins – Griffith College Dublin – Libre
- Turlough Kennedy – LIT – Born From Fire
- Joe Caraher Eoghan Ryan Leah Mc Daid – LIT – Growing Prices
- Bonnie Boyle Brendan Moore – LCFE – Interwoven
- Corinne Gibbons, Shane Joyce, Heather Curtin, Jordan Guerin, Zachary O’Donnell, Eoghan Ryan – LIT – Underground Éire
- Jack Healy – DKIT – The Alternative Ulster: Stories from the Northern Irish Punks
- Martina Flavin and Ciarán Ó Goibín – WIT – Capaill is Caráiste
- Caitlin Hurley, Kerah Reyes, Ellery Woof, Cian Flanagan – Queens – Made In The Emerald Isle
- Jane McWilliams, Natasha Vincent, Hannah Murray, Rachel Dyer – Queens – What you Have To Remember
- Adam McCallion – Queen’s – Art of Bonsai
Film Script of the Year
- Saskia Steinberg – Trinity – Bad Smell
- Kane Geary O’Keeffe – Trinity – Redsky at Night
- Hugh O’Neill – DKIT – The Last Stand
- Emma McCamley – BCFE – Take the Right One
- Daniel Fernández, Jeff Ryan, Ryan Lacey – Griffith College – The Bittersweet Truth
- Amélie Bates – TU Dublin – Lear
- Mark McDonnell – Trinity – Erebus Manor
- Ciaran Graham – TU Dublin – Layton & Milo
- David Cendon Garcia – NUIG – Untitled Western Film
- Arianna Owens – Trinity – Melted Sundaes
Journalist of the Year
- Michael Bergin – UCD
- Faye Curran – Trinity
- Conor Daly – UCC
- Sophie Finn – UCD
- David Cendon Garcia – NUIG
- Mairead Maguire – Trinity
- Maeve Alice O’Keeffe – UCC
- Aoife Rooney – UCD
- Emer Walsh – UCC
Photographer of the Year
- Alexander Edwards – Queens
- Ciara Sheridan – LCFE
- Elin O’Rourke Larsson – Griffith College
- Ella Lynch – Griffith College
- Gabriela Koscielniak – LCFE
- Injae Kang – TU Dublin
- Kate Swift – Griffith College
- Marina Dmitrik – Griffith College
- Orla Neiland – Griffith College
- Stephen Healy – Griffith College
Podcast of the Year
- Katie Hackett – TU Dublin – Pressing Pause: A Six Month Adventure on the Great Blasket Island
- Aibreán Ó Connalláin – Colaiste Dhulaigh – Unlocking Ireland’s Housing Crisis
- Kirsty King – Queens – The Women’s Scoop
- Julieanne Doyle – Colaiste Dhulaigh – Pursuit of Happiness
- Odhran Johnson – Queens – Indie Insight
- Valerie McHugh – NUIG – The Vent
- Abbie Alwell – But They Didn’t Hit Me!
- Mark Vesey & Brian Curtin – UCC – Narrowing the Void with Noel Caplice
- Zuzanna Iwanowicz and Ultan Stanley – UCD – Kancel Kulture
- Conor Devlin, Ava Bracken – UCD – Eurovision Weekly
Radio Production – Arts & Features
- Paddy Kidd – TU Dublin – The Travelling Café
- Katie Hackett – TU Dublin – Pressing Pause: A Six Month Adventure on the Great Blasket Island
- Stephen Holland – NUIG – Nun Left Behind
- Shane Dunne – BCFE – Interviews with Ciarran Dunne and Vanessa Pierce
- Katelyn Galvin, Ryan Jones, Mary M Maguire, Jessica Guerin, Sean Collins, Siobhan Keane, Stefan Sarbu, Lila Fenton, Mary Lavery Carrig, David Nelligan & Luke O Doherty – Kerry College – Kingdom of Hope
- Deborah Mathew – LIT – International Women’s Day Special
- Berat Zorlu – UCD – Tour Ticket
- Conor Todd & Ben Priory – Queens – The Music Voyage: Hyperpop
SFI
- Liam Fitzgerald – NUIG
- Jana Joha – UCD
- Andrea Beyer-Fraile – UCD
- Tiffany Greenwaldt-Simon – NUIG
- Vanshika Dhyani – UCD
- Ellen Kenny – Trinity
- Lucy Fitzsimmons – Trinity
- Emer Moreau – Trinity
Short Film of the Year
- Niamh Magee, Liam Delahunt, Celine McInerney, Andrius Rutavicius, Conor Lewis, James Hickey – DKIT – High Society
- Brendan Morris – Griffith College Dublin – CRISIS! – The End of The World or The End of Capitalism
- Rachel Dignam, Aoife O’Mara, Audrey Nicole Kurniwan – Griffith College Dublin – Getting to know Joe
- Skyler Calkins – Trinity College Dublin – Refuge
- Jan Paul Lodzinski – BCFE – Spades – Poker Shortfilm
- Arthur Lopes, Ying Qi Loh, Hector Romero, Karin Raksanugraha, Ross O’Riordan, Enya Meier, Nicole Tan, Aoife O’Hagan – Griffith College Dublin – Undertide
- Aleksander Nowak – BCFE – Metamorphosis
- Aisling Carroll, Jessica Banks, Rory Carroll, Karl Castles, Xun Hu – Queens – Drone
- Brian May – GTI – The Trap
- Maximillian O’Kelly – BCFE – Ignorance In Bliss
Sports Writer of the Year
- Lauren McCann – Queens
- Callum Buchan – UCD
- T.J. Galvin – University of Limerick
- Jack Kennedy – Trinity
- Simon Dobey – UCD
- Charles Alexander Moody-Stuart – Trinity
- Ronán Daly – UCD
- Maeve Dodd – UCD