{"id":621260,"date":"2026-10-05T12:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T12:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621260\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T12:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T12:32:10","slug":"rte-radio-1-among-winners-at-imro-radio-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621260\/","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 Radio 1 among winners at IMRO Radio Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today FM, Shannonside Northern Sound and SPIN 1038 picked up station of the year awards at the IMRO Radio Awards 2026, with RT\u00c9 Radio 1 securing the most awards on the night.<\/p>\n

The event was hosted by Dermot Whelan at the Lyrath Estate Hotel in Co Kilkenny.<\/p>\n

Accolades in gold, silver and bronze were given out across 42 categories last night.<\/p>\n

The Radio Awards Committee, comprising of 12 members representing all sectors of radio across the country, voted for the winners.<\/p>\n

Today FM was crowned National Station of the year, with the station securing 11 awards in total.<\/p>\n

Music Station of the Year went to Spin 1038 while Shannonside Northern Sound was victorious in the Local Station of the Year category.<\/p>\n

SPIN 1038’s Emma Nolan was also crowned Music and Entertainment Presenter of the Year.<\/p>\n

\"Justin
\nJustin McCarthy won News Broadcaster of the Year<\/p>\n

RT\u00c9 Radio 1 secured 24 awards on the night, including seven gold, nine silver and eight bronze.<\/p>\n

Justin McCarthy was named News Broadcaster of the Year, followed by BBC Radio Ulster\u2019s Richard Morgan, who got silver, and RT\u00c9\u2019s Sarah McInerney, who secured bronze.<\/p>\n

RT\u00c9 Radio 1\u2019s Brian O’Connell was awarded News reporter of the Year followed by his Radio 1 colleague, Barry Lenihan.<\/p>\n

\"Drivetime
\nDrivetime won Current Affairs Programme of the Year<\/p>\n

2026’s Radio Moment of the Year was Brenda Fricker on the Brendan O’Connor programme, while O’Connor won gold in Speech Broadcaster of the Year category.<\/p>\n

The station\u2019s Drivetime programme won Current Affairs Programme of the Year.<\/p>\n

98FM’s Leanne Hanafin picked up Radio DJ of the Year.<\/p>\n

\"John
\nNewstalk’s John Duggan took gold in the Sports Broadcaster of the Year category<\/p>\n

Gold in the Sports Programme category was given to Newstalk’s Off the Ball, with Dublin’s Q102\u2019s Dublin Sport Today topping the Local\/Regional category.<\/p>\n

Newstalk\u2019s John Duggan took gold in the Sports Broadcaster of the Year category.<\/p>\n

Breakfast Show of the Year went to Midlands 103\u2019s Breakfast at the Ploughing, while the General Music Programme award was given to M\u00edche\u00e1l, Shane & Ella on iRadio.<\/p>\n

Jamie Ryan of East Coast FM was crowned Newcomer of the Year.<\/p>\n

The Documentary category was won by Clare FM\u2019s The Hidden Disability.<\/p>\n

RT\u00c9 Lyric FM\u2019s Marty Whelan, Michael Crawley of LMFM, Teena Gates of Bauer Media Ireland and Helen N\u00ed Sh\u00e9 of RT\u00c9 Raidi\u00f3 na Gaeltachta were inducted into the IMRO Radio Awards Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

They received a rousing welcome at last night\u2019s event.<\/p>\n

RT\u00c9 Raidi\u00f3 na Gaeltachta secured three gold awards at the event in the Drama, Craolt\u00f3ireacht Le Gaeilge and Specialist Music Broadcaster of the Year categories.<\/p>\n

RT\u00c9 Lyric FM and RT\u00c9 2FM both secured one gold, one silver and one bronze award each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today FM, Shannonside Northern Sound and SPIN 1038 picked up station of the year awards at the IMRO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-621260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}