I've just seen that I've been nominated in two categories in the Irish Blog Awards 2010 - a nice surprise indeed. One in each category for Best Personal Blog and Best Food/Drink Blog - and in the midst of very illustrious company indeed as I recognise some of the bloggers I follow and am happy that I nominated some of you (you'll know who you are!).There is such an eclectic bunch of titles and categories it would take forever to go through them all, but I include a list below in both categories and if you click on the link to the full list above you can check any or all of them.
At any rate it is fun to be included and I wish everyone well. I haven't a notion of winning anything at all but I expect that it is the well-known public blogs that will hit the headlines, and fair play to them - they are practically professional full-timers.
Hobbyist bloggers like me will never be up there with them or have the time to compete - and blogging for me is fun and relaxing and not something I view as competitive. But I do confess to a sneaking delight when I see a lot of hits and new followers so my ego is just as susceptible to a massaging as the next person.
So good luck to all the nominees and have fun with following the stages - a longlist from all the nominees and then a shortlist, from which will emerge the winners. (Just like the Booker prize - but best not to get too carried away!)
Best Food/Drink Blog
– Sponsored by Bord Bia
- The Good Mood Food Blog
- Cheap Eats
- The Daily Spud
- I Can Has Cook?
- Good Things Come to Those Who Wait (tables) | Well Done Fillet
- Therese Brady
- Ice Cream Ireland
- foodyblog
- Robert Francis Wine
- The Look and Taste Show
- Curious Wines
- Val’s Kitchen
- Chilli and Chocolate
- Italian Foodies
- Ballymaloe Cookery School
- Blake Creedon’s Wine Cork
- The Grapes of Sloth
- English Mum
- Dispatches from the Deise: Lemon Meringue Pie
- Bubble Brothers
- Michael Kelly
- Ummera
- Bibliocook
- Tea and Wheaten Bread
- The Beer Nut
- The Green Apron
- Lola-Lu’s Kitchen
- O’Briens Wine, Beer & Spirits Blog
- Not Junk Food
- Lily’s Blog
- Well Done Fillet
Best Personal Blog
– Sponsored by Microsoft Ireland’s Developer and Platform Group
- Good After-Morning!
- E-Dublin
- Queen Of Pots!
- Paddy in Buenos Asia
- White Rabbit NI
- Dispatches from the Deise
- Fatmammycat’s Blog
- A Chick Named Hermia
- Mark Walsh
- Xbox4NappyRash
- Grannymar
- Head Rambles
- Blanaid
- Sir Jolt
- Jennifer Alice in Wonderland
- Trust Tommy
- The Spanish Exposition
- Party Down and Go Fuck Yourself
- Twenty Major
- Sinead Cochrane
- The National Lottie
- John Moynes
- Down with my Life by Vic Barry
- K8 the Gr8
- Stony River
- Live at the Witch Trials
- The Demure Lemur
- Pretty Far West
- Chancing My Arm
- Assistance Dog for Autism
- Irish Rain
- Therese Brady
- Wallpaper
- http://travors.com
- Words – Martin Dwyer
- The Lives Of Others
- Hammiesblog
- Alexia Golez
- Decs Rambling
- Conor’s Bandon Blog
- http://mandiedempseys.blogspot.com
- Off The Meatrack
- Only In Tokyo
- You’re confusing me with someone who gives a shit
- Hot Cross Mum
- helen james design
- http://allsortsofthings.wordpress.com
- The Punishment of Sloth
- http://leargas.blogspot.com
- From Bath to Cork with Baby Grace
- Asleep on the Compost Heap
- Mark Walsh
- First Three Chapters
- Annette Dunlea
- http://paulmay.org
- photopol
- Variou Cushions
- Ganching
- Eugene’s Blog
- Bicyclistic
- Darragh Doyle
- Val’s Kitchen
- The Biopsy Report
- Tots2Teens
- Prof. Jimmy Hill
- Irish Wanderings
- Adventures of a Welsh Tramp
- http://lyndarthemerciless.blogspot.com
- Clamnuts
- Whopper’s Bunker
- PlanetOutreach-ASD
- NiallOK.com
- True Economics
- Fieldwork
- http://morrigan-reborn.blogspot.com
- Three Thousand Versts in Loneliness
- nickhereandnow
- Girl from the Hills Blog
- Tazzymania
- Magatha-May
- Tinman18
- Manic Mammy
- Mwah.ie
- Still not driving
- Aislinn O’C
- Sabrina Dent
- John Keyes
- Stranded on Gaia
- Coffee Helps
- The Last of the Mojitos
- Blink And You’ll Miss
- Tir na Blog
- Not Sheep
- My Ex-Girlfriends
- My Dublin Life
- I Married An Irish Farmer
- A Trivial Blog For Serious People
- Red Mum
- Delightful Adventures in Dublin
- Lily’s Blog
- Small-leaved Shamrock
- Colm O’Gorman
- Inside View from Ireland
- Eamonn Fitzgerald’s Rainy Day
- Enough Talk, More Writing
- Virtual Haze
- W[r]ite Noise NI
- Ansnagbreac
- Lyndsay and the City
- Mad Dogs and Englishmen
- darragh’s blog
- My Name is Amy
- Invert This Space
- Makeup and Beauty
- Rosemary MacCabe
- Irish Mammy on the Run
- Are You There Blog? It’s Me, Charlotte
- Adland Ireland
- Annie Rhiannon
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8 comments:
Congratulations! You deserve your nomination. I hope you win.
Congratulations ! Am off to have a look now ...
congratulations on both your nominations. Well deserved!!!
Congratulations, Catherine! I'm just coming out of a head cold fog and catching up with everybody.
Thanks for all the links - this should keep me busy.
Well done Catherine! Good luck with it all:) It's great to see there are so many Irish bloggers out there isn't it?
Congrats on the nomination well deserved!
Thanks everyone for your kind comments and good wishes - I think it's a great honour to be on this auspicious list! And well done to the two fellow-nominees who added comments - I see Niamh and Irish Mammy are also nominees - so congrats to you both too - and yes it is great to see so many great Irish Blogs out there - and humbling too, as the caliber is so high in most of them.
Niamh -well done in getting the new blog name incorporated and good luck in the shortlisting.
Irish Mammy -best of luck to you too - I have to spend some time catching up on your blog and on PACUB too - I recall it at budget time and it is all a disgrace - well done with it all.
Stephanie - get well soon - I did enjoy your posts on the Winter Olympics from an insider Vancouver resident perspective!
Ann - you should be on this list but I think they meant blogs from Ireland not Irish bloggers abroad! There must be a category for you too - your writing is terrific!
Lynda - thanks and I hope you get on the SA awards list again this year - let us know if it's happening and I hope I haven't missed it as I have been sporadic in my post-reading lately.
Irene - thanks - I do enjoy the blog and if I started viewing it as a means to awards or competitively it would lose a lot of its appeal. No pressure is what I like about blogging - doing it for myself primarily and great if others enjoy it. I wish I could be as prolific as you with daily or more posts!
Yes, Catherine, well deserved!!
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