RTÉ.ie has scooped three awards at the Irish Web Awards

RTÉ.ie won the Grand Prix in the Irish Web Awards for "Best Website in Ireland". RTÉ.ie also scooped awards in two other key categories for "Most Useful Website in Ireland" and "Best Sports Site". These publicly nominated awards demonstrate that RTÉ.ie is the number 1 website of choice for the Irish public.

The winners were announced at a ceremony in the Radisson SAS Royal Hotel, Dublin on Saturday night. Presented by Rick O Shea the Irish Web Awards were created to celebrate the whole of the Irish web community.

RTÉ.ie delivers an excellent user experience by delivering and highlighting timely and relevant multimedia content whenever and however users want it. Engaging, trustworthy, and compelling content is the reason why users return again and again. RTÉ.ie is Ireland's leading media website with 2,581,443* Unique Users and 56,944,362* Page Impressions per month*. This shows a year-on-year increase of 22% and 30% respectively.

RTÉ.ie Sport delivers a broad range of top quality sports content to fans of Irish Sport at home and abroad. An impressive range of sports content is available live and on demand, both nationally and internationally as well as expert coverage, reviews and analysis.

Commenting on the achievement, Múirne Laffan, Executive Director of RTÉ Publishing said "We are really pleased to receive recognition for our strategy to make RTÉ.ie the favourite website for our audiences and for our driving commitment to provide innovation and creative excellence across all our services."

*ABCe May 2009