Amble have won the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Song of the Year award for their track Schoolyard Days.
The news was announced live on The Tracy Clifford Show on RTÉ 2FM hours before the main event kicks off in Vicar Street.
The band said that it was “unbelievable” and they were “very, very happy and delighted”.
They described the win as a “huge honour” and also said it was “a huge honour” to be nominated in four categories at this year’s awards.
“It’s something that you don’t think about when you’re writing songs or playing music,” said Amble’s Robbie Cunningham.
“You don’t write the songs for awards, but when you do get nominated, it is a lovely moment to sit back and soak in what’s really happened in the last couple of years. Hopefully, we have a couple of more awards at the end of the day.”
“Thank you to everyone who voted for us across Ireland,” his bandmate Oisín McCaffrey said. “It’s special, really special.”
“There’s a lot of people taking the stage tonight for the awards gig, people we looked up to for years,” McCaffrey continued.
“I was in college in Galway listening to those people five or six years ago now – and now to share the stage with them is surreal, genuinely, and we’re very, very grateful for the whole thing.”
For Amble’s Ross McNerney, being on stage at Vicar Street marks a milestone, as he attended the RTÉ Choice Music Prize show “twice as a punter”.
“I was here in 2016 when Lankum won one Album of the Year, and that was my first time seeing them,” he recounted.
“And I just came as a punter, as a music fan, and to be here in 2026 getting to play on the stage, it’s something I never thought of then. So, this is a celebration of Irish music, and we’re just proud to be a part of that.”
The trio confirmed that there is a busy year ahead, with a second album in the works.
Cunningham said that Amble is “supporting Dermot Kennedy around Europe, and then we are lined up for a couple of dates with Ed Sheeran in America, as well as our own, so we’re going to be busy men again in 2026”.
Amble said that “hopefully, the three of us just remain best pals and the three boys behind us [on stage] as well”.
Live coverage of the RTÉ Choice Music Prize continues on RTÉ 2FM throughout the evening.