The results are in for The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show End of Year Poll.
The survey asked Today FM listeners to vote for their 2020 favourites across a host of categories including music, movies, TV, podcasts and new to this year’s poll, ‘Covid Hero of the Year’ and ‘Hope for 2021’ categories.
Thousands of Breakfast Show listeners cast their votes and the results are a perfect look back at all that was positive in the year that was, well apart from the Word of the Year winner where (unsurprisingly) ‘Lockdown’ came out on top!
Katie Taylor was voted Woman of the Year for the second year running while Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan takes the Man of the Year title.
RESULTS - The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show End Of Year Poll
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Well, we ve
(finally) reached the end of 2020 and that means it s time for the results of the annual Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show End Of Year Poll.
Let s face it,
2020 has been.. a lot. What started out like any other year, turned into one of the strangest we ve ever seen.
But, despite the fact that Covid-19 tried its very best to ruin our fun by keeping us at home, music got released, we watched lots of telly, read plenty of books and listened to some brilliant podcasts. Sport made a triumphant return and although we couldn t go and cheer our teams on,
Gaoth Dobhair author in final of Irish Book Awards
GAOTH Dobhair author Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde has been named Love Leabhar Gaeilge Irish Language Book of the Year award winner at the An Post Irish Book Awards for his latest work Cnámh.
Mac Giolla Bhríde previously won athe Prose Work Prize in the 2018 Oireachtas Literature Competition for this collection of short stories.
Speaking to the Donegal News this week, the author admitted that he had been ‘surprised’ to receive a telephone call relaying the good news.
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Sinéad Crowley s books of the year
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Author and RTÉ News Arts and Media Correspondent Sinéad Crowley rounds up her books of 2020
Well that was quite the year. I know many people vowed to read more books during the dark days of 2020, and I also know many of them ended up playing with their phones instead and that’s perfectly fine, because just getting through 2020 was an achievement in itself, without any need to feel bad about unrealised goals.
But for those of us who do enjoy reading, books were a lifesaver this year, transporting us to other places and, crucially, other times, where people shook hands with each other and exhaled indoors with wild abandon.