{"id":614878,"date":"2026-09-05T02:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T02:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/614878\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T02:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T02:34:14","slug":"irish-writers-recognised-at-2026-wgi-zebbie-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/614878\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish writers recognised at 2026 WGI Zebbie Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish writers for stage, screen and radio have been recognised at the 19th Writers’ Guild of Ireland (WGI) Zebbie Awards.<\/p>\n

The ‘Zebbies’ recognise writing across theatre, television drama, continuing drama, short film, feature film, radio and audio drama, and children\u2019s and young people\u2019s television.<\/p>\n

Hosted by writer, actor and comedian Tara Flynn, the awards ceremony took place at the Light House Cinema in Dublin.<\/p>\n

Sheena Lambert won the award for Best Feature Film Script for B\u00e1ite, which she adapted from her own novel, The Lake.<\/p>\n

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\nBest Feature Film Script winner Sheena Lambert<\/p>\n

Ailbhe Keogan received the Best TV Drama Script award for the final episode of Trespasses, her adaptation of Louise Kennedy\u2019s novel of the same name.<\/p>\n

John Morton won Best Theatre Script for Denouement.<\/p>\n

Joy Nesbitt won Best Short Film Script for The Knife, while Rodney Lee received the Best Children\u2019s & Young People\u2019s TV Script award for RT\u00c9 Jr series The Unreal. <\/p>\n

The Best Radio & Audio Drama Script award went to Peter Dunne for Spooky FM: Jingle Hells, while Senta Rich won Best Continuing Drama Script for her work on RT\u00c9’s Fair City.<\/p>\n

Two new Zebbie Awards were presented this year.<\/p>\n

The Best Debut Script award, selected by an industry jury, went to Ciara N\u00ed \u00c9 for Claonadh (An Inclination).<\/p>\n

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\nWriter Ailbhe Keoghan accepts her award for Trespasses<\/p>\n

The Best Irish Language Script award went to Sarah Gordon and Damian McCann for their feature film Aontas.<\/p>\n

Aontas was recently selected by the Irish Film and Television Academy as Ireland\u2019s entry for the International Feature Film category at the Academy Awards.<\/p>\n

The Writers\u2019 Guild of Ireland represents writers working across film, television, theatre, radio, animation and games.<\/p>\n

The Zebbie Awards are named after O.Z. ‘Zebby\u2019 Whitehead, a Broadway and Hollywood actor who moved to Dublin in 1963 and supported theatre and writing in Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish writers for stage, screen and radio have been recognised at the 19th Writers’ Guild of Ireland (WGI)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-614878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}