Well done to all the winners at the Irish Blog Awards on Saturday. A wonderful night was had by everyone and our only disappointment was that we didn’t get to meet Fatmammycat who won in the LouderVoice-sponsored Best Blog Post category with her incredibly moving post on fox hunting.

The success of the awards every year is down to one man, Damien Mulley. Thanks again for another memorable night.

Here is the full list of winners:

The finalists for the Best Blog Post at the 2008 Awards have been announced. Looking forward to meeting them all on Saturday.

• Swearing Lady – Muppet shooting season
• That’s Ireland – Fianna Fail’s Fifty Ways to Laugh at Voters
• Fustar – To Whom it Concerns… It’s The Manky Toy Show (Live)!
• Fatmammycat.com – Fox hunting, horses and a girl’s awakening
• FakeEmpire: Why Katy will change everything. And nothing.
• Cheebah – A complex webb
• Twenty Major – Dickheads of the year
• Flirty Something: Let down your fair hair
• Music Road – Irish music, Irish landscape
• Balrog – Sinn Fein, what went wrong

Hope we see some interesting schwag on the night too!

The shortlist for this category has just been published over on the awards blog. We encourage you to check them all out since they show the fantastic variety and quality in Irish blogging over the past year.

• That’s Ireland – Fianna Fail’s Fifty Ways to Laugh at Voters
• Fustar – To Whom it Concerns… It’s The Manky Toy Show (Live)!
• Fatmammycat.com – Fox hunting, horses and a girl’s awakening
• Avoiding Life – There seems to be a bit of interest…
• The Provisional Licence Joke
• The Sigla Blog – A milestone
• nialler9 – The Go! Team, Cadence Weapon and the marketing sharks
• Twenty Major – Dickheads of the year
• Present Tense – David McSavage: never again
• Kav’s Blog – Top 5 Scary Moments – #1
• Flirty Something: Let down your fair hair
• Music Road – Irish music, Irish landscape
• Cheebah – A complex webb
• FakeEmpire: Why Katy will change everything. And nothing.
• Balrog – Sinn Fein, what went wrong
• El Blogador – Truth and justice for Paul Quinn
• The Chancer – Here comes the hammer
• YourfriendIntheNorth – Some thoughts on Fianna Fail’s recent discovery of the north
• Swearing Lady – Muppet shooting season

Well done to all the nominees, we’re can’t wait to see who makes it through to the final!