Six RTÉ shows took home gold at prestigious RTS Ireland Television Awards 2022 in April. Among the winners were BOWIE: Starman with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra (Best Entertainment), Keelin Shanley: Faraway, Still Close – Scratch Films Ltd (Best Factual Single) and Adam Saves Christmas – Kavaleer Productions (Best Animation).

RTÉ won nine awards at the Law Society of Ireland’s Justice Media Awards 2022 in the categories of Radio and Television Broadcast Reporting, Human Rights / Social Justice and International Justice reporting. The prestigious awards ceremony took place on 22 June at the Law Society’s headquarters in Blackhall Place. Category Winners included RTÉ Investigates Domestic Abuse – A Year of Crisis (Human Rights / Social Justice), RTÉ Documentary on One, L’Agression (International Justice Reporting).

RTÉ was honoured with the Broadcaster of The Year Award at the New York Festivals Radio Awards in April. RTÉ received three gold prizes for Sing! Dublin’s Gay and Lesbian Choir and One Day / Lá Dá Raibh (RTÉ lyric fm), Mamó, By Sara Keating, read by Ingrid Craigie (RTÉ Short Story Competition), Documentary on One: L’Agression (RTÉ Radio 1). RTÉ’s silver and bronze prize winners included, RTÉjr Radio, RTÉ lyric fm and RTÉ Radio 1 (including a number of awards for Documentary on One and Drama on One).

RTÉ won 11 awards at the inaugural Irish Podcast Awards held at Liberty Hall, Dublin in September, including four golds, five silvers and two bronzes. RTÉ’s gold award winners were Someone Like Me (RTÉjr), Beo Ar Éigean, RTÉ Documentary on One and Maddie and Triggs (RTÉjr) in the Best Family, Best Irish Language, Best Radio and Creativity categories respectively. RTÉ’s silver award winners included Hot Mess and The Almanac of Ireland in the Climate Award and Best Radio Podcast categories. RTÉjr Radio’s Maddie and Triggs also won silver for Best Family Podcast and RTÉ Documentary on One won silver both in the Spotlight open category (more than 50,000 listens per episode) and for GunPlot (part of RTÉ’s bi-media series on the Arms Trial) in the Best Documentary category. RTÉ’s two bronze award winners were Ecolution and Spooky FM, both from RTÉjr Radio in the Climate and Best Family Podcast categories.

In November, two in-house RTÉjr radio drama productions were awarded at the Prix Ex Aequo, an international children’s and youth radio drama festival organized every two years by Radio and Television Slovakia in cooperation with the EBU. The two winners were The Emperor’s New Duds (Radio Fairy Tale for Children category), written and produced by Nicky Coghlan and Cereal (Radio Play for Youth category), a six-part series written by Carol Walsh.

Also in November Maddie and Triggs, a 15-part series made with the assistance of the BAI by Turnip and Duck received the Society Award at the NCBI’s Vision Awards for 2022.

Let’s Find Out, RTÉjr’s children’s science entertainment series, picked up two prestigious international awards in June. The stop.watch production received an award for scientific merit at the SCINEMA International Film Festival, the largest science film festival in the southern hemisphere, presented by the Royal Institution of Australia. The series was also handed an industry award for Best Educational Media at the Raw Science Film Festival. Taking place in Costa Rica, RSFF brings people together across science, technology, entertainment and media to showcase best-in-class film from around the globe.

RTÉ News journalist, Adam Maguire scooped the Audio Story of the Year award at this year’s UCD Smurfit School Business Journalist Awards in December. Adam was recognised for his audio series on inflation, which was broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1’s Today with Claire Byrne. The series titled ‘Inflation Shopping Basket’ looked at why your weekly shop is getting more expensive.

RTÉ programmes won two awards at the prestigious AIBs in November. Documentary on One: Felix – Life and Limb came first in the Human-Interest Radio/Audio category, while RTÉ Investigates: The Accountant, the Con, the Lies was Highly Commended in the Investigative Documentary TV/Video section.

The RTÉ Documentary on One production, I’ll Send You Butterflies, produced by Mary-Elaine Tynan and Tim Desmond, won the 74th Prix Italia, held in Bari, Italy in October. Prix Italia is the longest running public media competition in the world. The documentary tells the story of Margaret Tynan, Mary-Elaine’s mother, as she battled through motor neuron disease from diagnosis, through the final year of her life.

In October, RTÉ won two awards at the Prix Europa Awards Ceremony, Europe’s biggest competition stage for public broadcasters. After a week-long adjudication and voting by producers from all over Europe, RTÉ Documentary on One: I’ll Send You Butterflies won a Special Commendation as ‘Best European Radio Documentary of the Year’, while RTÉ Drama on One’s Digging for Fire won a Special Commendation as Best European Radio Music Programme of the Year.

RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta took home four awards from Gradaim Chumarsáide an Oireachtais, the national Irish-language media awards, on 2 November. Cóilín Ó Neachtain won Journalist of the Year, Bladhaire won Best Radio Series, Pádraig Ó Sé won most eloquent broadcaster, and Gearóid Mac Donncha accepted a special award presented to the station on the occasion of its fifty-year anniversary. The awards took place as part of the Oireachtas na Samhna festival in Killarney, the first time the festival has been held since 2019.