1st Place Nothing Ever Happens Around Here by Robert Barrett
2nd Place Wogan's Sweet Sixteen by Kenneth Sweeney
3rd Place The Gypsy Girl by Rory Kirby
Congratulations to all our winners
The international jury was delighted with the standard of entries this year
Jesper Bergmann has worked as chief dramaturg of The Royal Theatre Copenhagen and the Danish Broadcasting Corporation.
"This year's shortlist has proved once again to a jury of non-Irish radio drama specialists that Ireland is indeed fertile soil for new writing, and that the radio drama genre still is attractive to new and upcoming writing talent"
Ilinca Stihi is a graduate of The Bucharest Academy of Theatre and Film. Since 2005 she has been a director at the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation.
"You have such great story tellers in Ireland"
Soila Valkama is a director, a dramaturge and actress. She taught radio directing, acting and dramaturgy at Berzeit University in Palestine's West Bank, and has worked as a director, dramaturge and producer with YLE, the Finnish Broadcasting Company since 1999.
"it was a pleasure to adjudicate such a high calibre of work"