Inaugural All-Ireland Podcast Awards Celebrates Industry Excellence
The inaugural All-Ireland Podcast Awards (AIPA) has announced the winners of its first annual ceremony, recognising the immense talent, innovation, and storytelling impact of audio creators across the island. The Awards drew an unprecedented number of entries, confirming the vitality of the podcast sector. The winners were revealed on Thursday, 13th November, at a special evening ceremony at The Woodlands Hotel, Adare, held as part of the Sound.Waves conference, sponsored by Limerick.ie
The winners highlighted the incredible breadth of creativity in the industry, with major wins going to investigative journalism, comedy, and sports reporting.
2025 All-Ireland Podcast Award Winners
The following Award winners were announced:
● True Crime: The Real Carrie Jade
● Documentary & Drama: Cover: Stakeknife
● Conversation: The Laughs of Your Life with Doireann Garrihy
● Sport: Indo Sport - A Closer Look
● Business & Innovation: Engineers Journal AMPLIFIED
● Current Affairs & Politics: The Indo Daily
● The Entertainment Award: Young Hot Guys
● The Spotlight Award: Nicky Byrne
The judging panel comprised both international and Irish industry figures from Spotify, Patreon, BBC, Wondery, Netflix, RTÉ, ONIC, GoLoud and Journal Media, with head judge Dylan Haskins.
● In True Crime, the runner-up was Where is Jón?, with Stolen Sister Commended.
● The Documentary & Drama Runner-up was KidCast School Tour, and Ireland Said Yes was Commended.
● In the Conversation category, The G Spot with Grace Alice was Runner-up, and Family Flowers Only by Grief Ireland was Commended.
● For Sport, Second Captains took Runner-up, and Corny: The Last Irishman in the NFL was Commended.
● In Business & Innovation, The Entrepreneur Experiment was Runner-up, with Exploring Ireland Commended.
● For the Entertainment award, Runner-up Lunchtime with Michael Fry and Commended was Marty Miller’s Music History (Nova
● With the Current Affairs & Politics Runner-up was Irish Farmers Journal: Mercosur Special, and The Explainer was Commended.
● The final award this year recognises someone who embodies the spirit of the inaugural Sound.Waves Summit, uniting podcasting and entertainment under one roof. The winner of this spotlight category is Nicky Byrne.
Founder, Kathryn Mason from MASONRY PR, reflected on the success of the inaugural ceremony:
“The huge interest we saw in this first year confirms to me that this is a vital platform for the podcast sector. This is not a one-off event; this is the start of a journey. We have a three-year plan to grow and scale these awards, making them bigger, better, and reaching every corner of this incredible community.”
Head Judge Dylan Haskins said:
“The range and quality of entries we had shows there’s such a diverse mix of shows whether that’s from independent creators, commercial publishers or public service broadcasters – across the 32 counties. The winners of the inaugural awards have been recognised for their excellence - and awards by their nature involve competition, but the All-Ireland Podcast Awards are as much about having an annual moment of coming together and celebrating the work that’s been made – and all the better to do that in Limerick which is a county that has so much creativity running through it.”
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