UCD Smurfit School Business Journalist Awards Shortlist Announced, Awards Sponsored by Bank of Ireland
- Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2025
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UCD Smurfit School has today announced the shortlist for the 2025 Business Journalist Awards, proudly sponsored by Bank of Ireland, celebrating exceptional reporting, analysis, and storytelling across the Irish business media landscape.
Photo caption l-r: Damien Garvey, Director, Group Corporate Affairs, Bank of Ireland; Nóirín O'Sullivan (Chairperson), Former United Nations Assistant Secretary General for the United Nations Department of Safety and Security and former Garda Commissioner, Professor Anthony Brabazon, Dean of UCD College of Business.
Now in its 18th year, the awards continue to recognise excellence in Irish business journalism across print, online, and audio platforms. This year’s competition attracted 126 entries, submitted by 72 journalists representing 17 media outlets.
The category receiving the highest level of engagement was Business Feature of the Year, which saw an impressive 34 entries, highlighting the depth of long-form reporting and investigative business journalism currently thriving in the Irish media.
The 2025 Business Journalist Awards Shortlist is as follows:
Category A: Business News Story of the Year
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Mark Paul, The Irish Times |
Derek Quinlan secretly gave his wife €2.5m tax refund |
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Killian Woods and Peter O’Dwyer, Business Post |
Ireland's $967bn 'Tax Mirage' |
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Amy Molloy, Maeve McTaggart, Darragh Nolan, Irish Independent |
Exposed: How workers are getting sick certs for €25 without seeing a doctor |
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Niall Sargent, The Currency |
Revealed: RTÉ writes down €3.6m on part-failed IT project |
Category B: Business Podcast / Audio Story of the Year
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Valerie Flynn, The Journal |
The Explainer: What is Shein and what is it doing to the clothing industry? |
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Adrian Weckler, Irish Independent |
The Big Tech Show: Scrub your social media and texts: a lawyer advises how to get through US border control. |
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Garrett Mulhall, Irish Independent |
The Indo Daily: Behind Closed Doors: The disgraced landlord Christian Carter and the newspaper gagging order |
Category C: Business Feature of the Year
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Sinead O'Carroll and Aoife Moore, The Journal |
The full story of how the operator of gossip site Tattle Life was unmasked in an Irish court |
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Adrian Weckler, Irish Independent |
AI Video - Adrian Weckler: Can you tell if this is real or not - and what does this mean for us? |
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Emer Walsh, Irish Examiner |
Conspiracies, distrust and 'holding on for dear life': Inside Ireland's largest Bitcoin Conference |
Category D: Business Analyst of the Year
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Eoin Burke-Kennedy, The Irish Times |
(1) How Ireland is losing the race to develop offshore wind energy (2) Which will get to Musk first: Tesla’s falling share price or Trump’s Maga clique? |
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Thomas Hubert, The Currency |
(1) Revealed: The 23 Dublin landlords paid millions for homeless accommodation (2) The battle for homelessness landlord data: Rewinding the week that was |
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Conor O'Carroll, The Journal Investigates |
(1) Ireland's data centres turning to fossil fuels after maxing out country's electricity grid (2) Where are all the data centres and why should you care? |
Category E: Business Interview of the Year
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Ciara O Brien, The Irish Times |
‘Stripe is a profitable business, and we intend to run it that way for a long time’ |
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Donal MacNamee, Business Post |
‘The torture is now past’: Tickets.ie boss on coming back from the brink |
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Fearghal O'Connor, Mediahuis / Sunday Independent |
McCartin strums a new tune at Avalon |
Category F: Women in Business Journalism Award
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Kathleen Gallagher, Business Post |
(1) Femtech funding: ‘We do it with babies in our bellies, on our boobs, and in our boardrooms. And we succeed’ |
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Ciara O Brien, The Irish Times |
(1) Can AI make my life easier? I spent a week living and working with chatbots to find out |
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Amy Molloy, Irish Independent |
(1) How a financial adviser told his clients to invest in a pension fund property – but then moved into the house without telling them, racked up thousands in rent arrears and now won’t leave |
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Emer Walsh, Irish Examiner |
(1) Tapped out: What went wrong for Killarney Brewing and Distilling? |
Category G: Upcoming Journalist of the Year
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Emma Hanrahan, Business Post |
(1) Meet the viral Gen-Z creator behind brands like Ryanair’s TikTok success |
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Eoin O'Hare, Business Post |
(1) Central Bank chief tells Donohoe to ‘rethink budget’ |
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Hugh Dooley, The Irish Times |
(1) Irish whiskey is undergoing a market correction, a temporary blip, a 'little pause’ |
The winner of each category will be announced at an awards ceremony on Monday, 8 December 2025, with each winning category awarded a €1,000 prize.
The winner of the Outstanding Achievement Award will be announced at the event.
For further information, contact Beth Gormley, UCD College of Business, PR and Communications Manager, beth.gormley@ucd.ie, 087-170-1652.
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