![This year's IMRO Hall of Fame inductees (L-R): Joe Finnegan, John Bennett, Mary Wilson and Paddy Halpenny [Photo: Andres Poveda]](https://www.rte.ie/images/001ee3de-800.jpg)
Newstalk, Clare FM and Spin 103.8 picked up the top gongs at the IMRO Radio Awards last night.
The event, which is considered to be the biggest night of the Irish radio calendar, took place at the Lyrath Estate Hotel in Kilkenny.
Awards in over 40 categories were given out, with gold, silver and bronze in each category.
The awards are voted on by juries of industry experts from stations all across Ireland.
Newstalk took home the National Station of the Year prize, as well as winning the most individual categories on the night, with a total of five golds, eight silvers and four bronze.
Clare FM won Best Local Station while Dublin's Spin 103.8 took home the prize for Music Station of the Year.
RTÉ Radio 1 has won five gold awards at the awards last night, including Best Documentary for its radio programme Blackrock Boys.
The station won five gold awards, four silvers and four bronze, with reporter John Cooke receiving gold in both the News Story and News Reporter of the Year categories. His Radio 1 colleague Barry Lenihan picked up silver in the latter category.
RTÉ's Documentary on One won Best Documentary for Blackrock Boys, which focused on abuse at Blackrock College, as told by two survivors.
The station also won gold in the Specialist Speech Programme for RTÉ Radio 1's Murmurations as well as landing the top prize for Music, Arts and Culture Documentary, The Irish Soundtrack.
Simon Murdoch of Cork's 96FM won Radio DJ of the Year, with RTÉ 2fm's Tracy Clifford receiving the silver award.
Newstalk's Off The Ball took gold in the Sports Programme category, with RTÉ Radio 1's Jacqui's Christmas Sporting Selection Box taking silver and 2fm's flagship sports show, Game On, taking bronze.
Joe Molloy of Off The Ball won Sports Broadcaster of the Year.
Children's digital radio station, RTÉjr Radio, took home gold in the drama category, with their audio theatre piece The Listener.
Breakfast Show of the Year went to 98fm's The Big Breakfast with Brendan and Rebecca and Best General Music Programme went to iRadio's Dave and Fionnuala.
Newstalk's The Hard Shoulder won Best Current Affairs Programme.
Today FM's Dara Quilty won the award for Music and Entertainment Presenter of the Year.
The Gay Byrne Award for Newcomer of the Year went to Radio Kerry's David Nelligan.
2023's Radio Moment of the Year was LMFM's piece entitled Losing My Boys To Suicide.
The Outstanding Achievement Award this year was won by Radiocentre Ireland, a body established by RTÉ and Independent Broadcasters of Ireland to promote audio as a marketing medium.
Four new Hall of Fame inductees were celebrated on Friday night, after being inducted in September. They are John Bennett of BBC Radio Ulster, Joe Finnegan of Shannonside/Northern Sound, Paddy Halpenny, formerly of Communicorp, and Mary Wilson of RTÉ Radio 1.
The four recipients received a standing ovation during the awards ceremony for their contributions to Irish radio.
RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta picked one one gold, two silvers and a bronze, with the gold awarded for Craoltóireacht le Gaeilge for Snaoisín Bán, a documentary that investigates cocaine use in Conamara and Co. Galway.
RTÉ Lyric FM picked up a silver and two bronze awards.
Radio Station Podcast of the Year was awarded to Q102/Wireless/Urban Media for The Kinahans.
